Mui Vondrasek

“It's not about danger, it's about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“We have explicit expectations of ourselves in specific situations–beyond expectations; they are requirements. Some of these are small: If we are given a surprise party, we will be delighted. Others are sizable: if a parent dies, we will be grief-stricken. But perhaps in tandem with these expectations is the private fear that we will fail convention in the crunch. That we will receive the fateful phone call and our mother is dead and we feel nothing. I wonder if this quiet, unutterable little fear is even keener than the fear of the bad news itself: that we will discover ourselves to be monstrous.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“I forget sometimes what laughter can do.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree