Lela Rybinski

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising