Hedwig Sables

“You can’t get away from dire health, but you may as well get some use out of it. It is not a question of making sense of suffering, because nothing does make sense of it. It is a question of not… sinking into it. It is talking back to whatever hurts, whether that is physical or psychological, so that it doesn’t submerge you.”
― Hilary Mantel

“In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“The child tortures the fly because he has the power to do so, and had not yet learned how mercifully to kill.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear