Evan

“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 don’t know.” “You do know, but you won’t speak. All must be locked up in yourself.” “Because it is not worth sharing.” “Because nobody can give the high price you require for your confidence. Nobody is rich enough to purchase it. Nobody has the honour, the intellect, the power you demand in your adviser.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“She was too scared to really reach for anything, so she settled for what she received.”
― Claire Jia, Wanting

“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