Vincent

“Yet there was surely an element of courage - a more substantive courage than the kind required to select a controversial paint color - in sticking to an unpopular perspective even at the price of appearing despicable.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life

“The Night Haunter’s growl was a wet, burbling thing at the back of his throat. He loathed begging,
principally because he didn’t understand it. They knew they were guilty, and justice had come for them.
They deserved this. Their actions made it necessary. So why beg? Why seek to flee from the
consequences of their own actions? Why sin at all if the price was too high to pay?”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Prince of Crows

“There is a labyrinth,' he said, 'in the heart of every man; and to each comes the day when he must reach the center, and meet the Minotaur.”
― Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

“It seems to me that most moments in a life can be called interludes: following something, preceding something. Carrying us forward, with our needs and nature and desires, as we move through our time.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Written on the Dark