Liv Drambarean

“Committing suicide would be so irrational that even had he wished to, the irrationality of the act would have prevented him.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“There was some more good-natured laughter at the expense of women.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“But a man with a belly like that can never become a flogger, it’s totally out of the question.” “There are floggers like me,” insisted Willem, who was just undoing his belt. “No!” said the flogger, stroking him across the neck with the rod in a way that made him twitch, “you shouldn’t be listening, you should be stripping.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder