Bionic Jean

“That’s what I dislike most of all in people—cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“They are voices from the past and their actions have echoed into our world and, unknown to them, they preserved our future.”
― Anna Faversham, Beware the Midnight Train

“It's easy to be cynical about death when you're young. When you are young, death is an anomaly. It's not real. It only affects other people. It's a bullet you'll dodge easily. It's why young people can go into battle: they really will live forever. They know.

As you stick around, as you go around the Earth, you realize that life is an ever-narrowing conveyor belt. Slowly, inexorably, it takes us all along with it, and one by one we tumble off the side of the conveyor belt into darkness. . .

They fall off the conveyor belt into the darkness, our friends, and we cannot talk to them anymore.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.”
― Diogenes of Sinope