Alex

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Fall

“against”
― Hugh Howey, Shift

“There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Some say it rings by its own will, that if one arrives in Venice to its great, noble clanging, it is proof of one’s Venetian soul, proof the old bell remembers one from some other time.”
― Marlena De Blasi, A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance