Victor

“You can’t count a croissant. Mostly air.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“There’s a theory that if we don’t have the right words in our vocabularies, we can’t even see the things that are right in front of our faces. If”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife

“Cicero cites the examples of Stilpo and Socrates: “It was said that Stilpo was drunken and Socrates was dull, and that both were given to sensual indulgence. But these natural faults they uprooted and wholly overcame by will, desire, and training (voluntate, studio, disciplina).”23 If we believed that everything were merely a product of fate or disposition, Cicero reasons, no one would be accountable for anything and therefore there could be no justice. In today’s terms, we’d all just be algorithms. Furthermore, we’d have no reason to try to make ourselves better or different from our natural inclinations.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“They were very good, soft rolls stuffed with ham and tangy white cheese and then heated just enough to make the rolls crispy on the outside and to melt the cheese on the inside.”
― Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead