Erin

“And if your opponent was not human, if your opponent killed a cockroach, what did it matter how many of them you killed? What was the difference between crushing an ant and setting an anthill on fire? Why shouldn't you pull wings off insects for your own enjoyment? The bug might feel pain, but what did it matter to you?
If you were the victim, what could you say to make your tormentor recognize you as human? How did you get your enemy to recognize you at all?
And why should the oppressor care?
Warfare was about absolutes. Us or them. Victory or defeat. There was no middle way. There was no mercy. No surrender.”
― Rf Kuang

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby