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“No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“Sadie, do you see this? This is a persimmon tree! This is my favorite fruit." Marx picked a fat orange persimmon from the tree, and he sat down on the now termite-free wooden deck, and he ate it, juice running down his chin. "Can you believe our luck?" Max said. "We bought a house with a tree that has my actual favorite fruit!"
Sam used to say that Marx was the most fortunate person he had ever met - he was lucky with lovers, in business, in looks, in life. But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know - were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had hey just now become his favorite fruit because there they were, growing in his own backyard? He had certainly never mentioned persimmons before.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Al fin y al cabo, la vida empieza y termina en la inconsciencia, de modo que las acciones que llevamos a cabo en plena consciencia no son sino islotes en un archipiélago de sueños. Sería tan absurdo reducir la vida a la vigilia como considerar que la realidad está hecha de bloques lisos y perceptibles en lugar de ser un enjambre cambiante de partículas de energía y materia vibrátil, por el mero hecho de que no somos capaces de observarlas a simple vista.”
― Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano