Sam

“You are all desperate for purpose, even though you don’t have one. You’re animals, and animals don’t have a purpose. Animals just are. And there are a lot of intelligent - sentient, maybe - animals out there who don’t have a problem with that. They just go on breathing and mating and eating each other without a second thought. But the animals like you - the ones who make tools and build cities and itch to explore, you all share a need for purpose. For reason . That thinking worked well for you, once.”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“There is a moral to it. It teaches that a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus