Sarah

“Beware the man (or jinni) of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“Emily was hydrophobic. Not so bad she couldn’t stand here, but enough that she felt the river’s hungry waters easing past like a starving crocodile with black, dead eyes.”
― Chuck Wendig, Black River Orchard

“she throws herself into her safest refuge: herself; this moist trace on her cheeks, this burning in her eyes, are the tangible presence of her suffering soul; gentle on one's skin, barely salty on one's tongue, tears are also a tender and bitter caress; the face burns under a stream of mild water; tears are both complaint and consolation, fever and soothing coolness. They are also a supreme alibi; sudden as a storm, coming out in fits, a cyclone, shower, deluge, they metamorphose the woman into a complaining fountain, a stormy sky; her eyes can no longer see, mist blurs them: they are no longer even a gaze, they melt in rain; blinded, the woman returns to the passivity of natural things. She must be vanquished: she is lost in her defeat; she sinks, she drowns, she escapes man who contemplates her, powerless as if before a cataract. He judges this way of behaving as unfair: but she thinks that the battle has been unfair from the beginning because no effective weapon has been put into her hands.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings