Alex

“You don’t have to like your teacher,” she told me one day after I came home spewing complaints. “But that woman’s got the kind of math in her head that you need in yours. Focus on that and ignore the rest.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Not every change is a step forward.”
― Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

“De la tristesse, un sentiment d'incrédulité plus que des regrets, et en même temps un étrange sang-froid, le sentiment que de toute façon on ne peut plus revenir en arrière et qu'il y n'y a plus qu'à avancer, avancer. Comme si en avançant encore et encore, tout au bout on allait se réveiller, et tout redeviendrait comme avant.”
― Kaori Ekuni, 神様のボート [Kamisama no bōto]

“On the other hand, when art considers itself as the reality and action as the falsehood, it once more envisages that falsehood as the peak of its own ultimate fictional world; it has been forced to realize that its own death is no longer backed up by the falsehood, that hard on the heels of the reality of its own work came the reality of death. This death is a fearful death, the death that descends on the human being who has never lived; yet he can at least dream, ultimately, of the existence in the world of action—the falsehood—of a death that is other than his own.”
― Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel