Bernt Ivar

“Everybody spends their whole lives pretending that shit isn’t random. We trace connections between events, and we invest those connections with meaning. That’s why we all make stories out of our lives. That’s what stories are: ways of pretending that things happen for a reason.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Blade of Tyshalle

“I know the world will survive us—and in some ways it will be more alive. More birdsong. More creatures roaming around. More plants cracking through our pavement, rewilding the planet we terraformed. I imagine coyotes sleeping in the ruins of the homes we built. I imagine our plastic still washing up on beaches hundreds of years after the last of us is gone. I imagine moths, having no artificial lights toward which to fly, turning back to the moon.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“No way to say warm in French. There was only hot and tepid. If there’s no word for it, how do you think about it?”
― Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

“When you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17