Emil

“Watching her stroll through the crowd was like watching the wind move across the surface of a pond. Except instead of casting ripples on the water, the heads of young men turned to watch her as she passed.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last. True, one portrait may hit the mark much nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very considerable degree of exactness. So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Er eg redd for å svelta, sa dokteren, skal eg av og til faste. Og er eg redd for å drukna, skal eg stundom senka lekamen i vatn. Om det er noko eg fryktar, skal eg læra å kjenna det. For kor redd ville eg ikkje elles vore for slikt som eg gjer til dagleg? Berre det å falla i svevn ville skremt livet av meg, om det ikkje vart for at eg er van med å gjera det kvar kveld.”
― Mads Rage, Og skipet siglar vidare

“After all it was only wood. It'd rot in a few hundred years. By the measure of infinity, it hardly existed at all. On average, considered over the lifetime of the multiverse, most things didn't”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music