Silvia

“If only politics really were a pantomime. If politics were just a farcical, inane, at times insane entertainment provided by characters who for the most part have got where they are, not by being in any way revolutionary or percipient or wise in their views, but by being louder, bigger, more ostentatious, more unscrupulously wanting of the play of power than those around them, if that were the beginning and end of the story it would not be so bad. Instead, they come to see that it’s not a pantomime, or it’s not just that. It’s a force so great that it has shaped every single thing on the surface of the earth that they had thought, from here, so human-proof.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Sarebbe stato carino, pensavo, se non avessi dovuto fare e dire cose il più vicine possibile alla perfezione, per essere guardata. Sarebbe carino che la gente ti amasse solo per il fatto che esisti, nel mondo, seduto, a fare niente.”
― Clare Fisher, How The Light Gets In

“But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men