Callum Osment

“But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“our long-lost paradise with all the aching, poison-sweet memories it holds”
― Iain Banks, Complicity

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I heard the students speaking and wondered how they could believe in human reality sufficiently to construct fantasies about it.”
― Rachel Cusk, Transit