Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these....

“ Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all. ”

Lois McMaster Bujold

From : Captain Vorpatril's Alliance