Seth H

“This is how you do it. This is how you disappear completely. It's not that you vanish, it's that you make yourself into the kind of person nobody wants to see.”
― Marlon James, The Disappearers

“Peter was insistent. There were limits to how much knowledge we could expect to have. Past peoples could see the sun rise, so they called it a sunrise because that was what they saw: an object moving upward. Should they have investigated the matter, taken a more exhaustive approach? Should they have refrained from mentioning the sun until after Copernicus? Or later still? Should they have said that unfortunately they couldn’t talk about the path of the yellow disk for another few thousand years, until someone had discovered that it was we, and the planet on which we live, who move around the sun? That it is not a disk, but a sphere. That it is neither yellow, orange, nor red, but that the atmosphere lends it its color. When do we know enough to give things names? When is it time to scrap the words we have and invent new ones?”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume IV

“suddenly Olga felt the urge to go outside, into the night. She suggested that, for once, we take a nocturnal stroll together. That in the dark you feel a little more like a human being.”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume IV

“What I can ascertain is that hope does sometimes come calling. A rare guest and not always welcome.”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume II