Leonel Akamine

“We’re all still running, according to Kreizler—in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil household doors, away from the nightmares that continue to be injected into children’s skulls by people whom Nature tells them they should love and trust, running ever faster and in ever greater numbers toward those potions, powders, priests, and philosophies that promise to obliterate such fears and nightmares, and ask in return only slavish devotion.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held her mouth to give her a characteristic bruised look; a look that subtly made one want to bruise her more.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“إن الإنسان إذا وجد في حياته معنى أو هدفاً، فإن معنى ذلك أن وجوده له أهميته وله مغزاه، وأن حياته تستحق أن تعاش، بل إنها حياة يسعى صاحبها لاستمرارها والاستمتاع بمغزاها”
― فيكتور إيميل فرانكل, Man's Search for Meaning

“I pushed
your boat
out of the gentle
stream

where
you were merrily
singing
and rowing

Forgive me
life
is but
a nightmare”
― Gail Carson Levine, Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems