Else

“I used to think I always knew what came next. I used to think that my plans were as good as destiny, but that’s never been true. I’ve just always been determined, and lucky, and determined to be lucky. But you can’t design a future and expect it to just happen. Like art, you can only start with intent. Your hands build the rest.”
― Ryan La Sala, Be Dazzled

“The…the worst thing about this place,” she hissed slowly, forcing the words out, “isn’t that it treats people like chattel.”

[...] “The worst part,” she whispered, breathing hard, “just the worst part, is that it tricks you.”

[...] “It makes you think you’re a thing. It makes you resign yourself to becoming a crude good. It makes things out of people so thoroughly, they…they don’t even know that they’ve become things. Even after you’re free, you don’t even know how to be free! It changes your reality, and you don’t know how to change it back!”

[...] “It’s a system,” she said. “A…device. Tevanne and the world it builds for us…it’s a machine.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“[...] haar verdriet was zo groot dat zijn omhelzing er niet omheen past.”
― Joke van Leeuwen, Mijn leven als mens

“[..] people fear knowledge. Knowledge is hard, and grotesque, and messy, and it eats away at whatever you believe in.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak