Iman

“We are all of us condemned to loneliness, each and every one of us. You died alone. I'll die alone. You yelled my name when the car fell, I call out yours each and every night of my life. At some point fate will realign our calendars and, if we're lucky, we'll live seventy long years together and then never again.”
― André Aciman, The Gentleman From Peru

“When I said that Mercy stood Within the borders of the wood, I meant the lenient beast with claws And bloody swift-dispatching jaws. —LAWRENCE SPINGARN”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“Hannibal had entered his heart’s long winter. He slept soundly and was not visited in dreams as humans are.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“You see the point. I want to tell you the truth, and already I have told you about the wide rivers.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem