Gabriel M.

“The past is not just that which happened to you. Sometimes it is that which you just imagined.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“It was a terrible thing to know that, while he liked the department, he very much preferred them in their usual state of grim misery and personal problems. That made him sound like a profoundly broken person. Which he was, but not in that way. It was just that he wasn’t very good at being happy.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, House of Open Wounds

“Are you going to start with the poetry of it?” Ghastron asked softly. “How her hooks are in your soul, so that each sweet breath is naught but wind unless some part of her can feel as you now feel. How every beat of your labouring heart speaks her name, and yet you know it isn’t even her name. That, sans the bounds of contract and the conjurer’s circle, does the thing that fills your life even exist? Or is the one you love solely within your mind, a puppet show played for your own amusement, and in which you strive, ever doubting, to believe?”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, House of Open Wounds

“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