Judas

“Revenge is a color, a color that never fades. A beautiful color. It is the color of the sky at dawn when lovers are hauled out of their beds and garroted in the middle of the street; the color of the ancient sea when Noah’s Ark has been breached below the water line; the color of Jacob’s Ladder as it collapses while Jacob has climbed only half-way to heaven. But it is more than that, much more. It contains the pigment that colors the eyes of the lovers that betray you.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“I might say too that you are the person who ought to help me, since you do bear some responsibility for having awakened in me such an immense, such a truly monstrous degree of love.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good