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“You’ll find God in the same place you’re going to find salvation from this mess,” Wit said. “Inside the hearts of men.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Time and change burn some people utterly. One approaches the identification of them as one approaches the scene of a disaster by fire, thankful if one recognizes a glove, a ring, two teeth as belonging to the vanished victim, as having been worn by him; things he touched, used, depended on, signaled with, and therefore part of him.
Moment after moment, day after day this feverish checking is carried out as people move back and forth between the fires of time and change.

And now there is talk of destruction of the world, of human beings reduced to ashes. It is not new. It has happened often.”
― Janet Frame, Scented Gardens for the Blind

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques--literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own