Else Hirschman

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale, Vol. 01

“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov