Caio

“Then there’s those wizards on it, who must all be gifted hydrophobes—” “You mean they hate water?” said Twoflower. “No, that wouldn’t work,” said Rincewind. “Hate is an attracting force, just like love. They really loathe it, the very idea of it revolts them.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.”
― Terry Pratchett

“the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

“You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realize how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain."

She was quite right. It was that simplicity that seemed somehow to be the nucleus of the shock. From very familiarity one forgets all the forces which keep the balance, and thinks of security as normal. It is not.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids