Daryl Barufaldi

“From a distance a metronome is ticking through the fog, and I mechanically chew to the familiar caress of its music, counting, along with everyone else, up to fifty: fifty statutory chews for each mouthful. And, still mechanically beating out the time, I go downstairs, and, like everyone else, check off my name in the book as one leaving the premises. But I sense that I'm living separately from everyone else, alone, surrounded by a soft, soundproof wall, and that my world is on my side of this wall.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“It is a Law of Nature with us that a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that each generation shall rise (as a rule) one step in the scale of development and nobility. Thus the son of a Square is a Pentagon; the son of a Pentagon, a Hexagon; and so on.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Without money of one’s own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose