Ji Mun

“Its face was like the face she had seen in some medieval paintings where the martyr’s limbs are being sawed off and his expression says he is being deprived of nothing essential.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

“People who can speak well, speak briefly.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Possessed

“She was beautiful, without comparison, but she exuded and icy and emotionless aura. She was as hard and as cold as ice and it was difficult to tell whether she was pleased or angry.”
― Jin Yong, 射雕英雄传（全四册）

“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground