Zephyr

“对了，还有入党的问题。我恐怕入不了。要入就要做一些……事情。总之，在我们这个街道厂，党员不是五十几岁、解放脚的老大妈，就是咋咋呼呼的小女孩。我恐怕要做到哪一种都不容易，尤其改变性别恐怕根本办不到。这种说法虽近嬉皮，却千真万确。再说下去就想和你说别的了，于是——住笔。”
― 王小波, 爱你就像爱生命

“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
― Rebecca Katherine Martin

“She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant.”
― Stephen King, A Winter's Tale: The Breathing Method