Jack Allison

“As philosopher Aldo Tassi points out, there is no performative person that preexists the person wearing a mask: “There is no role that stands ‘behind’ all our other roles and defines what we ‘really’ are, no more than there is an act of knowing (a knowing that) that stands ‘behind’ the acts of knowing and defines the possession of knowledge (knowing how)” (Tassi 1993, 207).”
― Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

“Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“That should have made him an anxious, stewing pot of nerves. Instead he tipped his head back, sun warm on his skin, and acknowledged that while he didn’t feel great, someday he would feel great again. For today, that was enough.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“Everything is darkest,’ Xaphen mused, ‘before the dawn.’ ‘That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realise it’s a lie.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The First Heretic