Emmy Wolfe

“The criminal who revolted against society hates it, and considers himself in the right; society was wrong, not he. Has he not, moreover, undergone his punishment? Accordingly he is absolved, acquitted in his own eyes. In spite of different opinions, everyone will acknowledge that there are acts which everywhere and always, under no matter what legal system, are beyond doubt criminal, and should be regarded as long as man is man.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

“... History sometimes does know revenge, a sort of voluptuous and delayed justice, but chooses strange forms for it and unexpected executors of its will.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“There is never a majestic mountain without a deep valley, and there is no birth without pain. ”
― Daniel Crawford