“It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of the mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. —BEN OKRI”
― Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything
― Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.”
― Tales from Earthsea
― Tales from Earthsea
“I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
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