Scott

“He began talking to an imagined woman, achieving an eloquence that was never his when he was face to face with anyone else.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter

“Another characteristic of conflicts such as these,” he said, gesturing toward the board, “is the propensity to demonize others. One way we do this is by lumping others into lifeless categories—bigoted whites, for example, lazy blacks, crass Americans, arrogant Europeans, violent Arabs, manipulative Jews, and so on. When we do this, we make masses of unknown people into objects and many of them into our enemies.”
― The Arbinger Institute, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“On Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of Jupiter, human beings were more free—free to found their own petty nations and ruin their own lives their own way. But”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter