Terry Pratchett
- Equal Rites
Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
A Fellow Typist
- Don't Forget Self-Care!
Remember to take frequent breaks to stretch your wrists, fingers, neck, and back. Keep an eye on your posture as well. You don't want to have serious joint pain and loss of motor function in the future just because you spent your healthy years hunched over at a computer typing, without taking any time to care for your body.
Chert
- Outer Wilds
Come, sit with me, my fellow traveler. Let's sit together and watch the stars die. We only get so much time, don't we? Ah, there was still more I wanted to do... How unlucky to have been born at the end of the universe.
Monomon the Teacher
- Elegy For Hallownest - Hollow Knight
In wilds beyond they speak your name with reverence and regret, for none could tame our savage souls yet you the challenge met. Under palest watch, you taught, we changed, base instincts were redeemed. A world you gave to bug and beast as they had never dreamed.
River
- To The Moon
I've always thought they were lighthouses. Billions of lighthouses... stuck at the far end of the sky. They can see all the other lighthouses out there, and they want to talk to them. But they can't, because they're all too far apart to hear what the others are saying. All they can do... is shine their lights from afar. So that's what they do. They shine their lights at the other lighthouses, and at me.
Langston Hughes
- Tired
I am so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two - and see what worms are eating at the rind.
Jacob Geller
- On Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
I mentioned before that the game may update its maps as geography changes, but maybe it should just leave it frozen in time. So when the oceans roll in, when pollution once again darkens the sky, we'll have a record of what it felt like. To fly above the empty streets.
Riebeck
- Outer Wilds
I learned a lot, by the end of everything. The past is past, now, but that's... you know, that's okay! It's never really gone completely. The future is always build on the past, even if we won't get to see it. Still, it's um, time for something new, now.
Pseudonymous Bosch
- If You're Reading This, It's Too Late
Well, I don't know if it means you wished for it, exactly. I think dreams are like things you can't admit you want because you feel guilty or embarrassed or something. It's called the unconscious. It's kind of confusing.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
- The School for Husbands
What? Shall the star that drives me to despair not give me time to catch a breath of air? Blow upon blow! Then must my vigilance be overcome by their intelligence? And at my age, am I to be the dupe of a young girl and a young nincompoop?
