He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.

And I thought the Golds were broken. We’re all just wounded souls stumbling about in the dark, desperately trying to stitch ourselves together, hoping to fill the holes they ripped in us. Eo kept me from this end. Without her, I’d be like them. Lost.

How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.

The brightest minds enslaved to an economy that demanded toys instead of space exploration or technologies that could revolutionize our race.

“Does he really believe in magic?” I ask. “He says gnomes steal ear wax from him at night. Mother thinks he’s been hit too many times on the head.” Daxo backs away, following his father. But he can’t hide his clever smile as he pops a jelly bean into his mouth, and I see where the ones in my pocket came from. “I say he just lives in a more

Momentum is everything to a Helldiver, to military endeavors, to life. Keep moving and dare someone to get in your path.

And what is the bloodydamn point of surviving in this cold world if I run from the only warmth it has to offer?

A child could beat the living hell out of this beautiful kitten of a man. Yet he’s ended families with a rumor here, a joke there. His power is of a different breed. Where I am kinetic energy, he is potential.

I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love.