J.S.A. Lowe

“From early on, we loved the broken-hearted,
And knew that home-life wasn't made for us.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

“人烧成了灰，成分就跟磷灰石差不多，并没有什么值得敬畏的，为什么我们要把它当回事？为什么每年头尾都有个年节作为始终，为什么勾搭别人上床之前先得有个告白和压马路的过程？为什么合法同居除了有张证之外，还得邀请亲朋好友来做一个什么用也没有的仪式？因为生死、光阴、离合，都有人赋予它们意义，这玩意看不见摸不着，也不知有什么用，可是你我和一堆化学成分的区别，就在于这一点‘意义’。”
― Priest, 默读 [Mo Du] The Light in the Night

“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing. Where this ideal has come from I have no idea, and as I now see it before me, in black and white, it almost seems perverse.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

“John," she said, "does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things?" He paused and smiled. "I am afraid it does," he said.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk