Ghanda

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Sfântul pricepu astfel că în golurile limbii, acolo, între o literă și alta, între un sunet și altul, în liniște, sunt lumi întregi, vaste peisaje irigate de râurile nerostitului, lumi împăturite-n lumi, lăsate să dospească în ignoranța omului care crede că, atunci când tace, vorbele nu se urnesc.”
― Flavius Ardelean, Bășica Lumii și a ne’Lumii

“Athshe, which meant the Forest, and the World. So Earth, Terra, meant both the soil and the planet, two meanings and one. But to the Athsheans soil, ground, earth was not that to which the dead return and by which the living live: the substance of their world was not earth, but forest. Terran man was clay, red dust. Athshean man was branch and root. They did not carve figures of themselves in stone, only in wood.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest

“Nothing touched by Empire stays clean.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire