Marta Stan

“In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")”
― Peter Straub, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now

“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”
― R.D. Laing