Annie

“The room was quiet.
That is, the room was quiet, but the lovers were breathing.
...
And in the dark room, the lovers sleeping in each other’s arms.
We are, each of us, the one who wakens first,
who stirs first and sees, there in the first dawn,
the stranger.”
― Louise Glück, Averno

“The punishment must proceed from the crime; the law must appear to be a necessity of things, and power must act while concealing itself beneath the gentle force of nature.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“He has sincerely wanted to die, but he has never sincerely wanted Marianne to forget about him. That’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her. ”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom.”
― Euripides, Medea