Amy

“I did that,” says my memory. “I could not have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—​​the memory yields. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil”
― Michael Robotham, The Suspect

“For it was their world, not Man’s. However he might shape it for his own purposes, it would be his duty always to safeguard the interests of its rightful owners. No one could tell what part they might have to play in the history of the universe. And when, as was one day inevitable, Man himself came to the notice of yet higher races, he might well be judged by his behaviour here on Mars.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars

“Antonina woke in the night to help midwife an animal like a giraffe (always tricky because the mother gives birth standing up, the calf falls headfirst, and the mother doesn't want help anyway).”
― Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

“The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily”
― Elie Wiesel, Dawn