visualosities/quotes/etc

[lightlessfuture]

"VOID, yours is the power opposed.
But yours is potential, eternity potential, force that could deny Time.
VOID, harness shall be placed upon you."

"And I hear, from your voice, the invisible reasons which make cities live, through which perhaps, once dead, they will come to life again." - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities



"I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is.

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls." -
Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” (Mills College, 1983)



"Is it brave? What’s brave? You know
then you unknow."
- Marianne Boruch, “Cadaver, Speak”



endling (plural endlings)

(rare) The last individual of its species or subspecies, which therefore becomes extinct upon its death.

You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.
— The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern