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“Whenever people say “everything,” “always,” “never,” “every,” they’re really only talking about themselves—in the real world such generalities don’t exist.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night

“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― Percival Everett, James

“And it was so absurd - this father whose silence, for their whole lives, his silence had been a wound Richie thought he might never recover from - it was so absurd for him to be speaking in this way, for him to ask to be spoken to in this way, like they were in some play where fathers and sons said such things to one another.”
― Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

“Speaking does harm, sows confusion and weakens things that are obvious. Speaking makes me tremble inside. I don't think I have ever said anything really important in my entire life -- there's a lack of words for the most important things anyway. (I must make a list of missing words -- top of it I'll put a verb that means something in between "I sense" and "I see.")”
― Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night