PF

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.”
― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise

“Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won't see it. It is, as Ruskin says, 'not merely unnoticed, but in the full, clear sense of the word, unseen.' . . . I have to say the words, describe what I'm seeing. . . . But if I want to notice the lesser cataclysms of valley life, I have to maintain in my head a running description of the present.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“It’s art. If you’re looking at it, it’s working.”
― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise