Nathaniel R.

“Mere mortals doing what needed to be done a hundred years earlier would have the same effect as divine intervention.”
― Liu Cixin, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

“The cyclists best chance is to gather all the responsibility that can be gathered. Hoard it from those around you. Have faith that you will do a better job with it than they will, and make it so. [...] Don't leave your fate to the stars, or to luck.”
― Robert Hurst, The Art of Urban Cycling: Lessons from the Street

“To fall in love with the world isn’t to ignore or overlook suffering, both human or otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry and watch the sycamore trees leaf out in June. When my breastbone starts to hurt, and my throat tightens and tears well in my eyes, I want to look away from feeling. I want to deflect with irony or anything else that will keep me from feeling directly. We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“- Comment réussiras-tu à vivre bien là-bas sans bien connaître le conditionnel et le subjonctif?

Je ne répondais pas. Je les trouvais moins difficiles à apprendres que le savoir-faire de nos ancêtres.”
― Ying Chen, Les Lettres chinoises