Silvia

“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

“How are we writing the future of humanity? We're not writing anything, it's writing us. We're windblown leaves. We think we're the wind, but we're just the leaf.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Ci saranno sempre momenti nella vita in cui vorrai arrenderti, in cui la strada ti sembrerà troppo difficile, in cui ti chiederai se vale davvero la pena lottare. Ma non scordarti mai che saranno le difficoltà a forgiarti.”
― Camille Monceaux, La maschera del Nō

“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