Jeanne

“Now, at least, the position was clear; this calamity was everybody's business.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Yes, plague, like abstraction, was monotonous; perhaps only one factor changed, and that was Rieux himself.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“So if the ideal of achieving a true political equality eludes us in reality—as it continues to do—there is still available that fictional vision of an ideal democracy in which the actual combines with the ideal and gives us representations of a state of things in which the highly placed and the lowly, the black and the white, the northerner and the southerner, the native-born and the immigrant are combined to tell us of transcendent truths and possibilities such as those discovered when Mark Twain set Huck and Jim afloat on the raft.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“On the previous night his mother, when handing him a telegram from his wife, had remarked that his hands were shaking.
"Yes," he said. "But it's only a matter of sticking to it, and my nerves will steady down, you'll see.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague