Matt Shaw

“There are lots of different stories branching away all the time from every single thing that happens. As soon as a moment has gone, different versions of it start to be remembered and told about. And some of them carry on, and some die out, and you can't know in advance which version will last and which won't.”
― Chris Beckett, Dark Eden

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

“Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and barbarism that is always bubbling underneath civilization . . . they must be defeated again and again, kept at bay.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“They were happy because they didn't have enough imagination to look ahead, he thought, and anyone who tried to tell them there were dangers was by definition an enemy of the community.”
― Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang