Andrea

“The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.”
― Ted Chiang

“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

“Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.”
― Ted Chiang, Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit