Evan

“Safely tucked into Hannah’s bag was Time Regained, which insisted that when one has knocked at all the doors which lead nowhere, one stumbles without knowing it on the only door through which one can enter—which one might have sought in vain for a hundred years—and it opens.”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

“In one of Dam’s magazines, I read that sleeping mammals can tell if they are being watched and wake in order to defend themselves, because a look is a physical thing that touches objects.”
― Roque Larraquy, The National Telepathy

“And was it Spinoza or another who spoke of despair receding, replaced by something which could only arise from a more shrouded realm: hopeless hope, nurtured in darkness, created by the freest part of each and every person?”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

“Your drive, all your achievements—you wouldn’t have them if you ‘fit in.’ Unlike people who quickly find their place in their little corner of life’s puzzle, you need to see and understand the puzzle in its entirety.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon