Liz Hall

“Stories are funny things. Even the mere idea of fiction. Facts exist. But I see now that facts are different than truth. Facts are supposed to be indisputable, unbending (at least until science tells us we were wrong about everything), but even the true stories of who we think ourselves to be are kind of fiction we create.”
― Samira Ahmed, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

“Every utopia contains a dystopia, every dystopia contains a utopia.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“There follows, I am sad to say, a very long ride on a very slow ride... to your final place of rest." He sighs, for he has spoken the truth for all men. Less understands: he has been assigned a poet.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“I need to tame the past. That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet. But history you have lived is different to history you read in a book or on a screen. And some things in the past can't be tamed.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time