Tom

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?”
― Greg Bear, Blood Music

“Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1