Max Geddes

“This play of shadow bit by bit surrounded the head like a halo or high mark of distinction. But the figure of Justice was left bright except for an almost imperceptible touch of shadow; that brightness brought the figure sweeping right into the foreground and it no longer suggested the goddess of Justice, or even the goddess of Victory, but looked exactly like a goddess of the Hunt in full cry.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“those who are ignorant naturally consider everything possible.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“Don't you like him Ellen?'

'Like him?' I exclaimed. 'The worst tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into its teens! Happily, as Mr Heathcliff conjectures, he'll not win twenty! I doubt whether he'll see spring, indeed - and small loss to his family, whenever he drops off; and lucky it is for us that his father took him - The kinder he was treated, the more tedious and selfish he'd be! I'm glad you have no chance of having him for a husband, Miss Catherine!”
― Emily Brontë

“My divinity shines in me like the last rays of the sun before they drown in the sea. I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe