Suddenly Frankenstein

“God was invented by the lonely people, by those who could not bear to think that no one would ever care about them, spend a thought on their loneliness. We are not chosen, what we are is terribly lonely and unloved. And all those righteous men who withdraw from the world to be with God—they’re leaving us behind because they think they can spend their life with the only being that truly loves them.”
― 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

“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

“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