Matt Shaw

“Because myths miss out all the sordid realities and preserve only "What we wish we'd done," rather than "How we actually did it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race

“Maybe I can be what someone good believes I am. Maybe that's what faith is.”
― Sterling Watson, Night Letter

“No one insists a corpse is still alive or a bird is still an egg but somehow a man is always what he used to be, and if he takes charge of his future people say he's not himself, that they don't know him anymore.”
― Personne, Traitor Comet

“You can do impulsive, reckless things completely sober. Or, well, I could, when I was young.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago