Hilde

“The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

“He let out a short laugh. "You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?”
― James Dashner, The Eye of Minds

“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom. But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited