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“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Така мина първата от тези дълги странни нощи. Посрещаше го с ожесточена страст, подобна на неговата, и с някакво познание, защото изтръгваше удоволствието си от него, разтваряше се, за да го получи, и се вкопчваше в него с накъсани животински викове. Галеше го по косата и целуваше слепоочията му, но с никакво целенасочено движение не се опитваше да му достави удоволствие като на мъж - и през всички тези нощи така и не стигна дотам. За миг му хрумна, че държи в обятията си Протей, сякаш тя изтичаше като река през вкопчените му пръсти и го заливаше отвсякъде като надигнала се морска вълна. Колко ли безброй, безброй мъже са си мислели същото, казваше си той, из колко ли безброй, безброй места в различни сезони, в различни стаи, колиби и пещери всички са си представяли, че плуват в соленото море сред надигналите се вълни, всички са си представяли - не, всички са знаели, - че са неповторими. Тук, тук, тук, към това го беше водил ритъмът в главата му, целият му живот... всичко бе клоняло към това действие, това място, тази жена, бяла в тъмното, това изпълнено с движение хлъзгаво мълчание, този дишащ завършек.
- Не се сражавай с мен - каза той веднъж, а тя напрегнато отвърна:
- Трябва.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.”
― Eve Ensler, Insecure at Last

“Laters, baby.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
― Maya Angelou

“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.”
― Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Vikram Seth, Siddhartha Deb, William Dalrymple, Amit Chaudhuri, Sunil G

“You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity