Arno

“Shiroyama’s heart stops. The earth’s pulse beats against his ear.
An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth …
… a black butterfly lands on the white stone, and unfolds its wings.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.”
― Philip K. Dick

“I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?”
― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

“Pinapatawad natin ang kalungkutan ng iba kapag hindi sinasadya nating natatabig ang kanilang pag-iisa sa pagmamadali sa pagtawid sa lansangan, o natatagpuan natin silang nakadungaw din sa bangin gaya natin.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog,, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog