Antonis

“Jack is tall and kind and don't hardly say anything. Love children. Respect his wife, Odessa, and all Odessa amazon sisters. Anything she want to take on, he right there. Never talking much, though. That's the main thing. And then I remember one time he touch me. And it felt like his fingers had eyes. Felt like he knew me all over, but he just touch my arm up near the shoulder.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“What's wrong with words?'

'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.'

'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp, 'that is precisely the point. That's their value - their ability to adapt—'

'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letherii are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they chose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

“καθετί τελευταίο διασώζεται σε κάτι επόμενο. Ακόμη και τα τελευταία πράγματα διαρκούν αιώνια.”
― Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing

“Μακάρι να πωλούνταν τα βιβλία με προσφορά χρόνου στο εξώφυλλο: τρεις ώρες για την Καρδιά του Σκότους, δύο ολόκληρες μέρες για το Πόλεμος και Ειρήνη.”
― Tom Petsinis, The twelfth dialogue