Amir Youssef

“It has all gone so fast, Duke. Like a dream. How is it the days crawl by and yet the years fly?”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Anderson Tapes

“just as the world of before had presidents who came and went. Meanwhile, it was the men in the shadows who wielded the true power, those whose terms had no limits. That this silo operated by the same deceit should not be surprising; it was the only way such men knew how to run anything.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“A bottomless abyss exists in every inch.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“Obviously, my daily life and the events in my dreams are far apart—as different as a subway and a balloon. And just like everybody else, I’m captive to everyday life, clinging to the humble surface of the earth. Even the most powerful person, or the richest, can’t escape that gravity.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls