Aramis

“An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“The price of a bus ticket, of a train ticket. She could be, could be, could be-
Alive.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“I’ll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray—but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of the terror that surrounds it is perfect”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August