Ben

“Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful. A reparation, a duty. And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, a curtain drawn back.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The unpaved street we were now living on had no past and no future but only a wan present in which it was hard to think of anything to do.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“After I couldn't remember any more except in a general way what she looked like, I could still remember the sound of her voice, and I clung to that.
I also clung to the idea that if things remained exactly the way they were, if we were careful not to take a step in any direction from the place where we were now, we would somehow get back to the way it was before she died. I knew that this was not a rational belief, but the alternative - that when people die they are really gone and I would never see her again - was more than I could manage then or for a long time afterward.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead. Making plants grow.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World