Amber

“With the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.”
― Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See