Hendrik

“The word “inspiration” usually means “something that mentally stimulates you.” But “inspiration” also means to breathe in. The meanings poetically combine when you think of yourself breathing in thoughts, filling your body with ideas. But don’t forget to breathe out.”
― Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing

“They say writing is a kind of death for the truth. Once something is written down, the logograms usurp the place of the ideas they represent and are mere shadows of. While a living voice can respond and adapt, the dead logograms stand mute, unable to answer an accusation or offer an apologia. Writing breeds hypocrisy because the clever may justify any barbarism by paying the writings of the sages ritualistic obeisance.”
― Ken Liu, The Veiled Throne

“There's always a second act. Always.”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones

“Parents were always gods and heroes in the eyes of their children until they were revealed to be ordinary people with mortal failings, and children’s paths were defined in that moment when they vowed to correct the errors committed by their forbearers.”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones