Carlos Garcia

“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Just as all English speakers can understand one another provided a dash of goodwill is thrown into the mix, so too can Serbs, Montenegrins, Bosnians, and Croats. But if your family was massacred by your neighbour's army, goodwill is hard to find.”
― Gaston Dorren, Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe

“God damn it! I yelled to him. Will you stop wining about your problems during my murder!”
― Andy Weir, Artemis