Mad Kaitos

“The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.

[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
― Lois Lowry

“و متى كان الله بحاجة إلى دين إنسان؟ إنما أحتاج إليه لأجعله ديني، و لا يحتاج إليّ لأدين به”
― ميخائيل نعيمه, البيادر

“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”
― Harold Pinter

“Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?

~Jack or The Submission”
― Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays