Annie

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

“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

“Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“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