“Your Majesty, you worship a thing you can neither see nor touch, whereas I worship something I engage with every moment of every day. Which is the more logical path?”
- V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn’t quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.” - A. A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh

“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”
Hugh Howey, Dust (Silo, #3)

worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news.

We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

“He couldn’t help but feel victim to Washington’s habit for assigning jobs to people who weren’t qualified for them, like campaign contributors who became ambassadors.”
- Hugh Howey, Shift

“Don't let them paint their posters with your blood.” - Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Also, whenever I read this paragraph to people who don't live in the South, they get hung up on the fact that we had furniture devoted to just guns, but in rural Texas pretty much everyone has a gun cabinet. Unless they're gay. Then they have gun armoires.”
- Jenny Lawson

“I would like to speculate a little, on the development of life in the universe, and in particular, the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behaviour through out history, has been pretty stupid” - Life in the Universe, Stephen Hawking

“Some people have questioned whether viruses should count as life, because they are parasites... But then most forms of life, ourselves included, are parasites, in that they feed off and depend for their survival on other forms of life.” - Life in the Universe Stephen Hawking

“In our next presidential election, an actor who reads his Bible would almost certainly defeat a rocket scientist who does not. Could there be any clearer indication that we are allowing unreason and otherworldliness to govern our affairs?”
Sam Harris, The End of Faith

Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason