Madeleine

“The whole time, Tobias stayed silent, gazing up at me with his giant baby eyes. I held him against me, no idea what I was doing. I'd always just seen babies as weird attachments to their mothers, little wriggling things that got hurried across the street at the first sight of me.”
― Chris Morphew, Doomsday

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“The world was filled with forgotten places that had been something else once, had contained something else once, renamed by whatever you did there now.”
― Jeff Vandermeer

“The universe was so beautiful it hurt. So very, very beautiful. And yet, at the same time, so full of ugliness. Some born of the inexorable demands of entropy; some born of the cruelty that seemed innate to all sentient beings. And none of it made any sense. It was all glorious, horrible nonsense, fit to inspire both despair and numinosity.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars