Evan

“And was it Spinoza or another who spoke of despair receding, replaced by something which could only arise from a more shrouded realm: hopeless hope, nurtured in darkness, created by the freest part of each and every person?”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

“What’s that saying again? ‘Heavy is the root of light.”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

“In one of Dam’s magazines, I read that sleeping mammals can tell if they are being watched and wake in order to defend themselves, because a look is a physical thing that touches objects.”
― Roque Larraquy, The National Telepathy

“I say impotent, for I observe that to such grievances as society cannot readily cure it usually forbids utterance, on pain of its scorn, this scorn being only a sort of tinselled cloak to its deformed weakness. People hate to be reminded of ills they are unable or unwilling to remedy. Such reminder, in forcing on them a sense of their own incapacity, or a more painful sense of an obligation to make some unpleasant effort, troubles their ease and shakes their self-complacency.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley