Carla

“I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Jaime’s golden hand cracked him across the mouth so hard the other knight went stumbling down the steps. His lantern fell and smashed, and the oil spread out, burning. “You are speaking of a highborn lady, ser. Call her by her name. Call her Brienne.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Some immaterial pattern of energy, throwing off a spray of radiation like the wake of a racing speedboat, had leaped from the face of the Moon, and was heading out toward the stars.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Every person you meet introduces the accident of that person to you. What can go right and what can go wrong. There is no intimacy without consequence. Which”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays