Sven de Ligt

“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Thunder rolled . . It rolled a six.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars