It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.
humorpseudosciencesciencetso-funnyzombies
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.
truth
They won the war but lost the peace,
bennychongnixwar
Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.
fearguilthatredrage
Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.
friendsgriefpaintso-love
He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.
humorousriotzombies
There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
decisions
Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.
journalismreporters
Revenge is an infection of the spirit.
revenge
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.
patient-zerothriller
He's a ghost, not a carnival magician.-Benny Imura
ghosthumortso-funnyzombies
Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor
monsters
But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
rageshame