Bogdan

“Do you ever wish you could travel back through your life? I do. I wish I could find myself when I was younger, carefree, cocksure, happy—perfectly, entirely happy. But never quite satisfied. I wish I could find that fool and just flog him up and down the street. I took so much for granted.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel

“You could resent yourself for your imperfect enjoyment of your life, but that seems to me like a never-ending chore. A thankless one, too. I think that if we really knew how good our lives were while they were good, we’d be too scared to do anything, change anything. We’d never take a risk, or explore, or grow. You can hate yourself for not fully appreciating your happy days while you had them, or you could look back and be warmed by the memory, couldn’t you?”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel

“This was not deception or betrayal. It was a scheduletrick”
― Sarah Lin, Bondsfungi

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) with Quoates