Jeff Nichols

“In that case, it was even more terrifying to think what he might do next “for the good of the galaxy.” It seemed impossible to me now that most people across the eighteen Sectors were just going about their daily lives, keeping their heads down, and not worrying about it. Successfully ignoring all the fearful moments, accusations, and announcements that didn’t sit right. That had been me, too”
― Amanda Bouchet, Starbreaker

“Reading as much as Charlotte did, she knew there were words, and words between words, ones that hid in the spaces, the pauses, the breaths. They hung on sentences, weighed them down with all the things that were not being said.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“One person’s utopia was another person’s hell. Each wanted their version of peace and happiness to win.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Starbreaker

“Because it means the end of innovation,” Malcolm said. “This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they’ll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That’s the effect of mass media—it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World