Aadya

“He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage