Andres Ocon

“The boy was just another wanderer amongst us who'd desired to fit in and asked for nothing more of this world than that simple wish to bear his fruit. He was a vagabond, a soul freed from heaven and tarnished, dipped in this earthly pool and rusted like iron, the scars shown upon his heart like Adam when he'd eaten the apple.”
― Edward A. Farmer, Pale

“When, then, does one man’s delusion become the world’s reality? Is it every generation’s destiny to contend with a dictator’s whims? “By shrewd and constant application of propaganda,” we read in Mein Kampf, “heaven can be presented to the people as hell and, vice versa, the wretchedest experience as a paradise.” But only when the people in question fail in their duty toward vigilance. Only when through inaction we are complicit. Only when we are sleepwalking ourselves.”
― Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

“Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“She might have said, I am not who you think I am. She might have said, I am experiencing a dislocation of reality.”
― Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel