Gabriel Franklin

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“é deste modo que o destino costuma comportar-se connosco, já está mesmo atrás de nós, já estendeu a mão para tocar-nos o ombro, e nós ainda vamos a murmurar, Acabou-se, não há mais nada que ver, é tudo igual.”
― José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island