Thanasis

“Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.”
― Joss Whedon

“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him 'You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory