

“He grabs me like he’s hungry. Like he’s starving, like he needs to take a piece out of me before I bleed out in his mouth.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“At dawn, Grace would have woken to a mouthful of fur, the leopard's head resting gigantic on her knee. She would have thought. How gentle, this world. How tender, this mercy.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution

“I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they continue.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“Yes, tomorrow Gore will go out hunting again. One thing God has granted him is an excellent aim. He is very good at killing things. Things, sometimes people. He pulls a trigger and knows himself loved.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time

“Men ruptured by melancholy, bleeding from their hairlines. Teeth loose in the head as a blown rose’s petals. Weeping for home—more so than usual. Aching in the joints. The smell of an orange, it's said, could drive a debilitated man to derangement. The word ‘Mother’ is like a lance to the ribs. Old wounds reopen.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time
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