Silvia

“Nothing is better than eternal happiness.
A cheese toastie is better than nothing.
Shouldn't stand to reason, then, that a cheese toastie is better than eternal happiness?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Noi siamo quello che sembriamo ma non sempre sembriamo quello che pensiamo di sembrare.”
― Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolce Vita

“Everyone else lived in such an ossified world. They simply took the rules given to them. They were interested only in articulating their own limits; they moved about as if in stone. But magicians lived in air, dancing on a tentative staircase of ideas, and it was a source of endless delirium, to know that the instant the world began to bore you, you could snap your fingers, and you'd be in free fall once again.
All it took was to tell a lie - and to believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that all the rules could be suspended.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Sometimes people, like tales, begin where they do not belong.”
― Seanan McGuire, Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear