Damian

“Back then I didn't know that I­­ -- or anyone-- ­­could make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. The result was chronic emptiness and boredom. There were more pernicious results as well: self­loathing, alternating with "inappropriately intense anger with frequent displays of temper...”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the
hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.”
― Marc Jampole

“How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget?”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Hades

“Nietzsche put the idea this way: “Man shall be trained for war and woman for the procreation of the warrior. All else is folly.” He went further. In Thus Spake Zarathustra he exclaims: “Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip!”—which”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany