Kasandra Lock

“We all reach a point where we would like to draw a line across time and declare everything on the far side null. Shed our past life like a pair of wet and muddy trousers, just roll their heavy clinging fabric down our legs and step away. We also reach a point where we would give the rest of our withering days for the month of July in our seventeenth year. But no thread of Ariadne exists to lead us back there.”
― Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons

“The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Matlock Paper

“Listen,' Thomas said, slowly getting to his feet, hoping Minho wouldn’t be stupid enough to try anything. “There’s something about us. We’re not just random shanks who showed up on your doorstep. We’re valuable. Alive, not dead.”
The anger on Jorge’s face lessened ever so slightly. Maybe a spark of curiosity. But what he said was 'What’s a shank?”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena