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“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“Creíamos en el control, en el poder del dinero y en la suerte. Creíamos en que el mundo era nuestro. El futuro era partícipe de nuestra voluntad. Todo el odio acumulado por vivir según las condiciones de nuestro cerebro nos hizo estallar en llamas. Jodimos nuestro propio mundo.”
― Francisco Miguel Espinosa, XXI

“Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand — and she hurried on. “I feel now as if the same is happening, only not to characters on a page but to my own beloved friends and companions. I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done.”
“You fear for Jem,” Will said.
“Yes,” she said. “And I fear for you, too.”
“No,” Will said, hoarsely. “Don’t waste that on me, Tess.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“yet how can people who aren’t dying discuss death with people who are?”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue