Rebecca

“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

“It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy

“After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?'
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin