Amir Youssef

“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

“and the past, as Faulkner said, was never dead; it wasn’t even the past. It always returned and forced you to confront it.”
― Baoshu, The Redemption of Time

“Standing there alone, I always felt sad, a deep sadness I'd felt before, long, long ago. I remembered that sadness very well. A sadness that can't be explained, that doesn't melt away over time, that quietly leaves invisible wounds, in a place you cannot see. And how can you deal with something you can't see?”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls