Lukas

“To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.”
― Sofia Samatar, The Winged Histories

“The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty’s limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one’s control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power.”
― Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics

“Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Sophocles, Antigone