95 Quotes

“Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind spot in a scientific and political technology. This is the way in which the Concept-city functions: a place of transformations and appropriations, the object of various kinds of interference but also a subject that is constantly enriched by new attributes, it is simultaneously the machinery and the hero of modernity.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

“You will know your ruin well. You will put yourself into it as you have put yourself into us, thinking that it is your will. But it is your doom that moves you thus. And your flesh will be filled with ruin, as you have come to bring ruin into us.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

“I'm learning that it's good to think about what scares you. To bring it into the light. Even to hold it in your hands, if you can, and feel how it can't hurt you anymore. To think of it and say, "I am not afraid.'"

Lee watched me so closely. I could tell he understood.

'It takes away its power, to look at it that way.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“But," Tahr said, kissing her next pawn in thought, "they always come back to each other. That's better than being inseparable, I think. To be separable, but bound.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant