Callum Osment

“It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

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

“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