Suddenly Frankenstein

“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

“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

“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.”
― Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World

“Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man