Chuck Jones

“The value of it. The value of a human life.’ Kawahara shook her head like a teacher with an exasperating student. ‘You are still young and stupid. Human life has no value. Haven’t you learned that yet, Takeshi, with all you’ve seen? It has no value, intrinsic to itself. Machines cost money to build. Raw materials cost money to extract. But people?’ She made a tiny spitting sound. ‘You can always get some more people. They reproduce like cancer cells, whether you want them or not. They are abundant, Takeshi. Why should they be valuable?”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“Without pain, there’s no beauty, Max. The beauty is worth the price.”
― Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

“So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“If the past someone told diverged from the true past, would the love for that person be mistaken somehow? If it was an intentional lie, would that make it all meaningless? Or could it give rise to new love?”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man