Evelyn

“The old woman was interested only in giving, and if anyone tried to surprise her with something, she never smiled, she flew into a rage.”
― Magda Szabó, The Door

“How come I can’t make her happy, how come she can’t make me happy? Simple: the atomic reaction you expect isn’t taking place, the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.”
― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

“If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. This hypothetical Martian would probably conclude that human beings were an evolutionary error.”
― Noam Chomsky