Matthew

“But he’s from England.’ Jakob of Thorn ushered him over the threshold. ‘They’re all devils there.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“The sky cares nothing for you, dear one. The stars don't even see you.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“It is my belief that the World (or, if you will, the House, since the two are for all practical purposes identical) wishes an Inhabitant for Itself to be a witness to its Beauty and the recipient of its Mercies.

If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Sift the sand of every world and sort the dust of space between them, and you will find not one atom of fear, nor gram of love nor dram of hatred. Yet they are there, unseen and uncertain as the smallest quanta and just as real.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence