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 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

“Safely tucked into Hannah’s bag was Time Regained, which insisted that when one has knocked at all the doors which lead nowhere, one stumbles without knowing it on the only door through which one can enter—which one might have sought in vain for a hundred years—and it opens.”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

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