Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

They won the war but lost the peace.

A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.