Berry Weiser

“He sees how when people suffer just so much they get mean and ugly and something dies in them. But the main thing he sees is that the whole system of the world is built on a lie. And although it’s as plain as the shining sun—the don’t-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can’t see it.”
― Carson Mc Cullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or submit to, some outrage: the shame that the Germans did not know, that the just man experiences at another man's crime; the feeling of guilt that such a crime should exist, that it should have been introduced irrevocably into the world of things that exist, and that his will for good should have proved too weak or null, and should not have availed in defense.”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man / The Truce

“It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“I may seem happy, but I’m still hurting. A nasty, adulterous divorce will do that.”
― Cricket Rohman, Wanted: An Honest Man