Avery

“When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.”
― Yoko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police