I.C. Toren

“You could tell a lot about people from the way they talked. You saw their past, their upbringing, their aspirations—all in the words they used.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“So wie ein Mond nicht allein leuchtet, sondern unzählige Sterne um sich herum braucht, so müssen Menschen manchmal erst zum Leuchten gebracht werden, um dann für andere strahlen zu können.”
― Faten El-Dabbas

“Hope. Such a funny, fickle thing. We need a lot of it right now.”
― Shannon Messenger, Let the Sky Fall

“We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running”
― Sam Harris, Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion