Gabriela

“(When asked “Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?”)
I showed your message to my wife. She got mad and yelled: “What would make them think I was the model for Midori?!” She told me to fix the misunderstanding immediately, so that’s why I’m writing this reply now. Please stop causing problems in my household. Thank you.”
― Haruki Murakami

“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“And in time we come to see that not only are we on the sidelines of the universe but that it’s of a universe of sidelines, that there is no centre, just a giddy mass of waltzing things, and that perhaps the entirety of our understanding consists of an elaborate and ever-evolving knowledge of our own extraneousness, a bashing away of mankind’s ego by the instruments of scientific enquiry until it is, that ego, a shattered edifice that lets light through.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“And let me speak to th’ yet unknowing world        How these things came about. So shall you hear        Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts;        Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;        Of deaths put on by cunning and forc’d cause;        And, in this upshot, purposes mistook        Fall’n on th’ inventors’ heads—all this can I        Truly deliver. (5.2.371-78) The”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet