Gingerella

“If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“(...), I faced the same opposition everywhere. I would have surrendered in front of an overwhelming army of academic giants, if I had not made an immediate discovery. They were giants each in their special field. But the greater experts they were in their own area the less they knew outside their narrow speciality. I began to feel like a little David confronted by an army of anthropological Goliaths, my slingstones being sweet-potatoes, coconuts and other hard evidence from biological genetics.”
― Thor Heyerdahl, Expedition Kon-Tiki

“De Geest van de Lichte Droge Sneeuw nam de Geest van de Korrelige Sneeuw tot gezellin en enige tijd later baarde zij ver in het Noorden een Berg van IJs. De Zonnegeest haatte het glinsterende kind dat groeide en zich steeds verder over het land uitstrekte en de zonnewarmte tegenhield zodat er geen gras kon groeien. De Zon besloot Berg van IJs te vernietigen, maar de Geest van de Stormwolk, de bloedverwant van Korrelige Sneeuw, ontdekte dat de Zon haar kind wilde doden. En in de zomer, toen de Zon op zijn krachtigst was, vocht de Geest van de Stormwolk met hem om het leven van Berg van IJs te redden.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear

“I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant nothing.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho