I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
Paolo BacigalupiThe problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
Paolo BacigalupiI used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.
Paolo Bacigalupi