“ Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices. ”
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.
~ Jonathan Maberry
It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.
They won the war but lost the peace
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.
