Harsh

“The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty

“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“If dirty words frighten you...I really don’t know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain