Dalton

“What a silly routine, Natalie thought, not realizing, sitting there alone on the stool in the center of the ring of girls, how she was jeopardizing her own future in college, her own future for four years and perhaps for the rest of her life; how even worse than the actual being a bad sport was the state of mind which led her into defiance of this norm, this ring of placid, masked girls, with their calm futures ahead and their regular pasts proven beyond a doubt; how one person stepping however aside from their meaningless, echoing standards, set perhaps by a violent movement before their recollection, and handed down to them by other placid creatures, might lose a seat among them by questions, by rebellion, by anything except a cheerful smile and a resolution to hurt other people.”
― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

“Ustedes no están aún fuera del objetivo del diablo; no han resistido hasta la sangre, luchando contra el pecado; tengan siempre el reino delante de ustedes, y crean firmemente con respecto a las cosas invisibles. No dejen que nada que hay a este lado del otro mundo les invada; y sobre todo, guarden bien su propio corazón, y los deseos que tiene, porque son engañosos más que todas las cosas, y desesperadamente malvados;”
― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino

“Das Unmoralische gewinnt sein himmlisches Recht als eine drastische Kritik des Moralischen!”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling