Matt Shaw

“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

“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

“To return from the dead is a bit like riding a bike, or unfastening a girl's bra with a single hand. It's all a question of getting the knack.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I discover that waiting may be accomplished in divers ways. And stillness has many . . . appearances, as does warmth.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon