Hannah

“these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on regular basis, and while he knew what he saw was real, he wasn't sure anyone would believe him if he tried to explain it.." pp21”
― Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

“the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I watched as the doll twitched to life. But just as the force swelled, it overwhelmed the creature. I began to move about in a most terrifying manner, its eyes shifting around the room in a crazed fashion. The rabbi put a hand over the doll's face, spoke the words again, and life left the doll....I stared at all of this, astonished, too terrified to speak and yet too fascinated to run. "We can make the golem live," Jakob said. "But we need a strong shell. a better shell. One made of porcelain." The rabbi met my eye, and I understood at last what they wanted of me..”
― Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

“A man may meet a woman and be shocked by her ugliness. Soon, if she is natural and unaffected, her expression makes him overlook the faults of her features. He begins to find her charming, it enters his head that she might be loved, and a week later he is living in hope. The following week he has been snubbed into despair, and the week afterwards he has gone mad. (Chapter 17)”
― Stendhal, Love

“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart