Dian

“Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“همه‌چیز را بسنج؛ همواره باورهای خود را با واقعیات باز آزما، و آماده‌باش تا حتی عزیزترین باورهایت را هم که با واقعیت نمی‌خوانند کنار نهی. عقاید خود را مستقلاً و بر مبنای خرد و تجربه‌ی خود برگزین؛ نگذار دیگران تو را به پیروی کورکورانه بکشانند.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“... that the past is one lie, and the memory has no returning, becouse every old spring is beyond retrieve, and even the craziest and most persistent love is just a temporary truth...”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude