Hannah

“A hundred years since it was planted - a span of time once too long to fathom, and now, too hard to measure. So far, she has counted time in seconds, and in seasons, in cold snaps and in thaws, in uprisings and in aftermaths. She has seen buildings fall and rise, cities burn and be remade, the past and present blurred together into a fluid, ephemeral thing.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“We all grieve in different ways, you know?' she adds. 'Losing someone is universal, but I think that's about it, really. The rest is our own thing.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“Who gave a fuck, Kathy thought, no one liked Putin, likeability was irrelevant, what mattered was whether you could make people numb enough to change all the laws, change the entire system, that was the game. Once you pardoned a corrupt sheriff who'd openly run 'concentration camps' for Latinos you were probably well on the way.
Numbness mattered, it was what the Nazis did, made people feel like things were moving too fast to stop and though unpleasant and eventually terrifying and appalling, were probably impossible to do anything about.”
― Olivia Laing, Crudo

“For instance, have you ever heard a square-wheeled steam roller ride over a street full of hard-boiled eggs" he asked, and as he did, all that could be heard were loud crunching sounds.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth