Manuel

“I'd just lain there. Not sleeping, but wishing that I would. Thinking, but wishing that I would stop. Not crying... but somehow wishing that I could.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats s hate more than innovation, especially innovation which produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

“Neither truth nor answers are easy to find. We still have to try, rather tha giving up the resposability to someone else.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“But a kiss is the start of something. A doorway to something else. The fun is all the promise of what’s on the other side. A kiss, when you know it’s leading nowhere … what’s it worth? It’s just a reminder of what you don’t have. The first sentence of a story that’ll never be told.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils