“The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.”
Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char“I must send you into exile, that you may be the coal of her heart. No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the memory of you when there is nothing else, and be sustained.”
Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char“Are you a Buddhist?""No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.”
Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char“She wanted to burn the whole place to ashes but, at the same time, it would be kind of nice to see it again. Home.”
Scott Hawkins, Spring 2015 Debut Fiction Sampler