Tom

“What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.”
― Samuel Butler, Erewhon

“common sense, though she is by nature the gentlest creature living, when she feels the knife at her throat, is apt to develop unexpected powers of resistance, and to send doctrinaires flying, even when they have bound her down and think they have her at their mercy.”
― Samuel Butler, Erewhon

“Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.”
― Greg Bear, Blood Music