Shadowrise

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was beauty — a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless — if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

We are all children of both the good and evil that has gone before us.

Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters--all that is.

I don't know what to do,' he said at last. 'I don't know what will happen.' 'If you did, you would only be making a selection, not a choice.

One of our oracles tells us, ‘Rain falls, dew rises. Between is mist. Between is all that is.’ Let that be your answer, manchild. Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters—all that is.

The world is a ball of dung and we are the worms that live in it and eat each other.’ He turned his back on her, pausing only to add: ‘The one who eats all the others wins – but he is still the last living worm in a lump of shit.

Barrick could only stand and watch them go, alone with the tribe of incomprehensible strangers who lived now in his blood and his thoughts.