Ruan

“That's how it is when an oyster and a revolution go down the wrong way! I become miserable again. Oh! what a dreadful old world – of drudgery and beggary and debauchery and butchery – and we get used to it!”
― Victor Hugo

“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“Temples and tochkas lay covered in scaly coats of clocks and measuring instruments, and every gap in between was filled with the friction and disorder of some lampstand, kitchen utensil, mirror window bottle doorpostboxcarouselectorpedometerrariumbilicalendartboardwalkmandalandminesweeperiscope …”
― Dempow Torishima, Sisyphean

“In any case, the storm that's going to fall will be the one falling when it falls.”
― Fernando Pessoa