Martine

“We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory