Dorthy Briar

“You used to sing a song, a haunting melody – always the same melody – but the words would always change. They’d be about anything and everything and nothing at all, just whatever was going on in your heart and your mind at the time. Do you remember that song?”
― Jason Latshaw, The Threat Below

“Înseamnă că o iubești. Ți-e teamă pentru că e mai presus de tine, urăști pentru că te temi, iubești pentru că nu poți s-o spui. Pentru că poți iubi numai ceea ce nu ți se supune.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Sie las in ihrem Leiden viel und entdeckte, daß ihr etwas verlorengegangen war, von dessen Besitz sie vordem nicht viel gewußt hatte: eine Seele.

Was ist das? – Es ist negativ leicht bestimmt: es ist eben das, was sich verkriecht, wenn man von algebraischen Reihen hört.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“Then, like magic, it seemed like the universe provided a solution. And I thought—okay, this is how. This will work. There’s hope—light at the end of the tunnel. A silver lining, you know?” Roy shook his head. “Fuck. I was so stupid. I was too proud to realize that there was no way it could ever happen. That there couldn’t be a happy ending for us. It was just a set-up. You see, the universe still had accounts to settle. And Susie and I, we were way overdrawn.”
― J.K. Franko, Tooth for Tooth