Jordan Lorenz

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad