Phoenix Ocean

“He was clearly aware of only one thing, his own total isolation. The world had fallen out from under him, and he was left alone.

To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Here is my arm. I want to live.”
― Carole Maso, Ava