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“Unlike flowers, the animals he tried to macerate would not yield up their scent without complaints or with a mute sigh — they fought desperately against death…and in their fear of death created large quantities of sweat whose acidity ruined the warm oil… The objects would have to be quieted down, and so suddenly that they would have no time to become afraid or to resist. He would have to kill them.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn’t it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“...you should know that in truth everyone is guilty before everyone else and for everything.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“8. Marriage is filled with, among other things, laundry and unanswered questions.”
― Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me