Arsalan

“The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.
Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
― Edward Said

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses