Stella P

“to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“Postcards of landscapes, panoramas of old ruins, postcards ambitiously prepared so as to show as much as possible on that flat space, are slowly being replaced by photographs focusing on details. This is no doubt a good idea, because they relieve tired minds. There is too much world, so it’s better to concentrate on particulars, rather than the whole.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“She thought about how no one had taught us to grow old, how we didn’t know what it would be like. When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people. While we, for reasons never entirely clear, would remain young. We treated the old as though they were responsible for their condition somehow, as though they’d done something to earn it, like some types of diabetes or arteriosclerosis. And yet this was an ailment that affected the absolute most innocent.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“And the deeper one delves, the clearer it is that each of these supply chains is interwoven with another. We are in a web, not a chain.”
― Ed Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization