Max van Baaren

“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
― Andy Weir, The Egg

“That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet