Luis Emery

“To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time,”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“In time your mind will not matter. It will go, and with it goes all sense of loss, all sorrow. Nor will love matter. Only living will remain. Undisturbed, peaceful living. You are fond of the girl and I believe she is fond of you. Expect no more.” “It is so strange,” I say. “I still have a mind, but there are times I lose sight of it. Or no, the times I lose sight of it are few. Yet I have confidence that it will return, and that conviction sustains me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“People are not plants. They are not fixed to any roots or dependent on them. People are mobile and free to move far from their beginnings—far away, if that satisfies them—far upward, if they have the ambition and ability.”
― Gary Jennings, Aztec

“Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.”
― Gary Jennings, Aztec