Beak

“I've been trying to take care good care of myself, but the most that I can show for it is daily rubdowns with cold water. Yet, I assure you, for a knave like me, this is a major undertaking.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Beggar Student

“Did you think I'd be your daughter forever? Are you the father of fools, the fool of fathers?'

'Your tone is unkind with me,' I answered.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“If my odious confessions lend this work a modicum of nuance, all the better.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

“Although I had a moral dread of human beings I seemed quite unable to renounce their society. I managed to maintain on the surface a smile which never deserted my lips; this was the accommodation I offered to others, a most precarious achievement preformed by me only at the cost of excruciating efforts within.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human