Bernice Bugge

“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45

“It is time to get rid of the fantasy we are living in, because the devil is real, and he comes to kill, steal and destroy—but our Lord Jesus Christ has come to set the captives free.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

“I’m not convinced we can take them out from a distance, Nathan. That’s always been the American solution, by the way. Bigger guns. Nukes. Drone strikes.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Folk of the Air