Connor Stompanato

“But how can a man who has once strayed into Heaven ever hope to make terms with the earth! What passes for happiness with most people seemed contemptible to me. And when I tried, deliberately and sincerely, to live like the rest of them, I stored up enough remorse to last me a very long time.”
― Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes

“It's very sinful, but when I'm with you, I don't need God.”
― Boris Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God

“And I tell you, pleasure and pain have nothing to do with heaven and hell.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“Try to have a sense of 'I'; I = myself, as the center of my powers, as the creator of my world.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963 – A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet's Intimate Correspondence on Marriage and Mental Health