Cassie

“Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness—these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“Constellation, not sequencing, carries truth. This is why travel psychology envisions man in equivalently weighted situations, without trying to lend his life any—even approximate—continuity. Life is made up of situations. There is, of course, a certain inclination toward the repetition of behaviors. This repetition does not, however, mean that we should succumb in our imaginations to the appearance of any sort of consistent whole.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“Then you realize: night gives the world back its natural, original appearance, without sugar-coating it; day is a flight of fancy, light a slight exception, an oversight, a disruption of the order. The world in fact is dark, almost black. Motionless and cold.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“(the face turns out to be one of the most superficial characteristics of the whole human form),”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights