Izzy Verdery

“And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

“Marx was a prodigious reader, and he felt like Sadie might be the kind of book that one could read many times, and always come away with something new.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess