Simply Sam

“We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“silly me, I wasn’t expecting a stealth, supersonic, vertical take-off submarine fueled by the eerily whistling ghosts of necromantically murdered dolphins.”
― Charles Stross, The Annihilation Score

“Really Ursa, now I see why you wear white.” She mounted her horse in one smooth motion. “Why?” “The blood shows up so much better.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, To Journey In The Year Of The Tiger

“Those the walkers carried into the Wood were less lucky. We didn't know what happened to them, but they came back out sometimes, corrupted in the worst way: smiling and cheerful, unharmed. They seemed almost themselves to anyone who didn't know them well, and you might spend half a day talking with one of them and never realize anything was wrong, until you found yourself taking up a knife and cutting off your own hand, putting out your own eyes, your own tongue, while they kept talking all the while, smiling, horrible. And then they would take the knife and go inside your house, to your children, while you lay outside blind and choking and helpless even to scream. If someone we loved was taken by the walkers, the only thing we knew to hope for them was death, and it could only be a hope.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted