Anja

“Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

“The borders between private and public had disappeared long ago. This staging of the self, of one’s family, one’s everyday life, he pursuit of ‘likes’: this was not something Melanie had made up. It had all become a way of life, a way of being in the world. One third of the children who were born already had a digital life.”
― Delphine de Vigan, Les Enfants sont rois

“Her parents had got it wrong. They’d believed Big Brother would be incarnated in an outside power, authoritarian and totalitarian, against which they would have to take up arms. But Big Brother hadn’t needed to use force. Big Brother had been welcomed with open arms and a heart starving for likes, and everyone had agreed to become their own torturer. The borders of privvacy had moved. All it took was one click, one heart, one thumbs up, and you could display your children, your family, and the story of your life. Everyone had become the curator of their own exhibition, and that exhibition in turn had become an indispensable part of self-realization.”
― Delphine de Vigan, Les Enfants sont rois

“To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters