Matthew

“...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451