Marla

“Better to be a monkey and not be able to understand what’s been taken from you, than to be a man and be able to understand all too well—and be helpless to stop it.”
― John Scalzi, Fuzzy Nation

“Hera thinks of the maternal line: Gaia, Rhea and now Hera. The goddess who created the world, the goddess who nurtured it and the goddess who will protect it. But stronger than that line is its dark twin: Ouranos, Cronus and Zeus, who only care for what they can take.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“They could sense the promise within her: I could tear the world down, burn it to ashes, and make you long for more.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world, only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.”
― Christopher W. Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction