Pandemonium

“Space is one of the few places where time makes sense to him. He knows, on an intellectual level, that when he looks at any object, he’s looking back in time. In the case of his own hand, it takes the light a nanosecond—one billionth of a second—to transport the image to his eyes. When he looks at the research station from half a mile away, he’s seeing the structure as it existed 2,640 nanoseconds ago. It seems instantaneous, and for all intents and purposes, it is. But when Barry looks into the night sky, he’s seeing stars whose light took a year, or a hundred, or a million to reach him. The telescopes that peer into deep space are looking at ten-billion-year-old light from stars that coalesced just after the universe began.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“People said there was no way to understand Gon. I didn’t agree with them. It’s just that nobody ever tried to see through him.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“Misérable ! quel crime j'ai commis, et quel crime je fais commettre à la société !”
― Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné

“We must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.”
― Albert Camus, Create Dangerously