Mark Tooley

“We have doomed the world with our advancements, with our democracy that is so much better than whatever they've thought of, with our technology that will so improve their lives, and now algerian men must choke to death on their own melted insides in wet Belgian trenches.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“It was never any use to dig down on rejection feedback, though. Maybe they didn’t like her because she was no good, not talented, too short. Maybe they didn’t like her because they were racist or sexist or harboring some other secret prejudice. In the end, they didn’t like her because they didn’t like her. She wasn’t going to reason them out of their dislike. She wasn’t going to teach anyone anything.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it”
― John Banville, The Sea