Jack

“I am nowhere near understanding Time. It seems to be a direction in which sentience can only move one way and perceive the other, but it also destroys, and twists, and swallows, making legacies differ from, or even oppose, intent. It annihilates, repeats, erases. It is too alien to me.”
― Ada Palmer, Seven Surrenders

“You think you’ve uncovered a great mystery. You have no idea. You haven’t even scratched the surface of the history of the Empire.”
― Andreas Eschbach, The Carpet Makers

“He wasn't such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“I was born into this world without knowing what life was all about. Only power promised fulfillment in life, and I have pursued it--long enough to recognize that it's a false promise and that this road leads to nothing. But I tried. Even if we get no answers to our questions, it is the inalienable right of every living being to search for them--by all means, on all paths, and with all strength. What I did was only what I had a right to do.”
― Andreas Eschbach, The Carpet Makers