Audrey

“Grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“it was a cruel irony that the only human being who could console me was the very one who made me suffer.”
― Christine Leunens, Caging Skies

“Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have beliefs? Could a machine make mistakes? Could a machine believe it made its own decisions? Could a machine erroneously attribute free will to itself? Could a machine come up with ideas that had not been programmed into it in advance? Could creativity emerge from a set of fixed rules? Are we – even the most creative among us – but passive slaves to the laws of physics that govern our neurons?”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“The great danger of lying is not that lies are untruths, and thus unreal, but that they become real in other people’s minds.”
― Christine Leunens, Caging Skies