Gretchen Tredo

“Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed, from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman. She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness [...]”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

“I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading”
― Irvine Welsh, The Blade Artist