Polaris

“If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“Time is the cruelest force of all.”
― Cixin Liu, Death's End

“The world we experience as ‘out there’ is actually a reconstruction of reality that is built inside our heads. It’s an act of creation by the storytelling brain. This is how it works. You walk into a room. Your brain predicts what the scene should look and sound and feel like, then it generates a hallucination based on these predictions. It’s this hallucination that you experience as the world around you. It’s this hallucination you exist at the centre of, every minute of every day. You’ll never experience actual reality because you have no direct access to it.”
― Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End