Gabriel M.

“Bashaarat smiled: "Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“So many places where I‘m not. I‘m not in Naples, in Tangier, Coimbra, Lisbon, New York, Yambol, and Istanbul. Not only am I not there, I am painfully absent. I am not there on a rainy afternoon in London, I am not there in the clamor of Madrid in the evening, I am not in Brooklyn in autumn, I am not there on the empty Sunday streets of Sofia or Turin, in the silence of a Bulgarian town in 1978…”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“Congratulations, whoever you are. You’ve hacked an open-source wiki. Your mother must be very proud.”
― Edward Ashton, Mal Goes to War

“And he was doing his best to sound horrified but also, you had to interrupt Banders because she always interrupted you. She respected you for it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, House of Open Wounds