Stella P

“time runs only one way.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“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

“Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that—in spite of all the risks involved—a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“They weren’t real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights