Suddenly Frankenstein

“Thank good God you are a
nothing and a nobody, Osman repeated, and they all laughed at their own safe insignificance.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All That It Holds

“George makes himself remembers. He is afraid of forgetting. Jim is my life, he says. But he will have to forget, if he wants to go on living. Jim is death.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

“I don't like myself, you know. I love myself, of course, I'm committed to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.”
― Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil

“I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.”
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers