Uzi

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“My mother forbade us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.”
― Anne Carson

“Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend