Hayley

“Someone who had authority, or should have had authority and did not exercise authority. I do not know. But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. So completely forgetting that when I say choose to you you make expressions with your face such as “Herrrrrre we are going.” Someone taught that temples are for fanatics only and took away the temples and promised there was no need for temples. And now there is no shelter. And no map for finding the shelter of a temple. And you all stumble about in the dark, this confusion of permissions.”
― David Foster Wallace.

“Of course Crake wasn’t Crake yet, at that time: his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n’s instead of the usual spelling? “My dad liked music,” was Crake’s explanation, once Jimmy got around to asking him about it, which had taken a while. “He named me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two n’s.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“Democracy is good for you when you are not in power and worst when you are in power and that’s why it is best form of government.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People