Casey Spencer

“-and my point is, there's always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we're living at the climax of the story. It's a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we're uniquely important, that we're living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst it's ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.

Pages 189”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Knowledge is power, isn't it?"
"Not necessarily. Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can never be rid of it. You have to carry it always. Even if it pains you."

Liss to Julian & Paige (Pg. 112)”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“I watched the silvery light flicker around the petals.
"What does it do?"
"Do?" Calypso mused. "It doesn't so anything, I suppose. It lives, it gives light, it provides beauty. Does it have to do anything else?"

'I suppose not." I said.

Percy to Calypso”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Mr.Owens had an expression for two things he found equally unpleasant: "I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea," he would say. Bod had wondered what this meant, having seen, in his life in the graveyard, neither the devil nor the deep blue sea. I'm between the ghouls and the monster.

Page 91”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book