Milele

“rocks, naturally, think only rocks can talk, and they’re right, at timescales meaningful to rock.”
― Max Gladstone, Dead Country

“I am ready,’ said Gilda Farren, ‘to forgive—’ ‘Never do that,’ said Wimsey. ‘Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings

“This particular citadel of the mighty was reached by a glass sided lift which ran up a completely transparent service core that allowed one—and one assumes that here one refers to one as one—to appreciate the view over Hyde Park which, after all, is what one has paid upward of ten million to enjoy.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree

“She wants to believe there is a micro way into the macro—that we can Sheryl Sandberg our way to a Simone de Beauvoir–worthy society.”
― Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World