Raphael Aseron

“That’s why it’s important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we’re familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it’s easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“The absence of a thing, can be as deadly as the presence.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Meanwhile, let us study things that are no more. We need to be familiar with them, if only to avoid them. The spurious things of the past assume false names and pass themselves off as the future. This spectre, the past, is liable to falsify its own passport. Let us be prepared for that pitfall. Let us be on our guard. The past has a face, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us expose that face and tear off that mask.”
― Victor Hugo, The Wretched

“Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune