Miriam Hebert

“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“What he was thinking was that he wished the coffin were less conspicuous; he knew it was white because of the purity of the child inside, but are we really that pure when we arrive in this world?”
― Augustina Bazterrica

“Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another

“Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil