C.T. Rwizi > Quotes

“There are hyenas out there, my child. When you see hyenas prowling outside your gates, you shut them out so they don’t come in and eat your children.”
― C.T. Rwizi, Scarlet Odyssey

“each pace featherlight on the muscles and easy as breath.”
― C.T. Rwizi, Scarlet Odyssey

“To live under a sky; to feel the unfiltered light of the stars, the breath of the wind on our faces; to liberate a world from the clutches of tyranny: that is the promise of life beyond the Habitat.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“When I look back at my life during those years, I often feel like I’m recalling a distant, gray dream that happened to someone else,”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“am two separate beings right now. One knows what I should feel; the other is making sure I don’t feel it.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“The noise becomes tolerable the second I stop trying to make sense of it and let it exist without my input.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“Greed is the human instinct of survival without the brakes on, and few people have the self-control not to keep reaching for more when there’s more for the taking.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“tremble with rage at being so helpless, balling my fists so I don’t punch something. My life is a lie. My home, a lie.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“That poor old man lives in a society advanced enough to extend his life indefinitely yet instead chooses to make his arthritis treatments unattainable; and he thinks the solution is to work harder.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“The story goes our ancestors left Africa on Old Earth centuries ago, crossing a long-range jump gate to a distant arm of the Milky Way and settling the habitable worlds scattered across what they called the Tanganyika star cluster. They came to this world and named it Ile Wura, House of Gold, for its richness in natural resources. They settled on Tripoli V, the moon of a gas giant orbiting a gentle star. They settled on New KwaNdebele, Mawu-Lisa, Élysée Bleue, and several other planets and moons, building cities and nations that grew prosperous enough to compete with those on the older colonies closer to Sol.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“The world may be a dark place, but it seems that even the darkness can be made to be afraid.”
― C.T. Rwizi, Scarlet Odyssey

“That was the first time true joy bubbled out from within me, without chemical aid. Half of me had been missing from my life all along—I hadn’t known it until right then—but here it was, restored to me, and I was complete.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“corporate power in the hands of a cybernetic aristocracy.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“nothing for us to eat come morning tomorrow. We can no longer expect our needs to be met simply because we exist. No food will magically reappear in the freezer.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“Sometimes I wonder: If this is what it costs to save humanity, is humanity even worth saving at all?”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“today I feel . . . disconnected from everything. From myself.”
― C.T. Rwizi, These Alien Skies

“You and I are going to be friends. Whether you like it or not.”
― C.T. Rwizi, These Alien Skies

“ZimbaTech is a meritocratic society. Here the value of an individual is measured by their productivity and hard work.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“I don’t think this coffee is, though. This smells like soil and air and sunlight, or what I imagine they might smell like.”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“When a person becomes so much of your identity , who are you without them?”
― C.T. Rwizi, These Alien Skies

“Wear your scars proudly; they do not define your failures but your victories over life.”
― C.T. Rwizi, Scarlet Odyssey

“There was an age of societal regression driven by the fear of”
― C.T. Rwizi, House of Gold

“I felt out of place during my first few months as a cadet at the academy on Mahali Prime. The hallways seethed with smiling faces and confident people who behaved as though the universe lay in the palm of their hands. They knew they belonged in these illustrious halls ..and they acted like it. My insecurities made me a moody asshole. So, most of my colleagues kept their distance.”
― C.T. Rwizi, These Alien Skies

“History can be a burden sometimes.”
― C.T. Rwizi, These Alien Skies

“Aba D is right, though, and he certainly knows all there is to know about never showing weakness. Unyielding strength and pure and absolute perfection on the battlefield were the prices he had to pay in order to marry the man he loved without suffering the stigma that often comes with such unions. Anything less, even the slightest slip of the foot or a moment of hesitation, and the stigma would have never left. An impossible standard to live up to, Salo would say, one he knows he could never achieve in a thousand years. In fact, sometimes he feels like he gathers stigma just by breathing. A walking, living scandal. A blot to be washed clean. Weak. Useless.”
― C.T. Rwizi, Scarlet Odyssey