Alain

“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“The fun comes in telling them yourself—something I warmly encourage you to do, you person reading this. Read the stories in this book, then make them your own,”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“Quizás para compensar ese cuerpo maltrecho y grotesco que me había tocado en suerte, mi cerebro vivía siempre atento, ávido, y aprender se me facilitaba sobremanera, como si desde un comienzo supiera que mi inteligencia iba a ser la única arma de supervivencia en medio de un mundo cruel y amenazante”
― Mario Mendoza, La melancolía de los feos