Karuna

“For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has one seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was, but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death– a state which I feared but did not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The Definitive 1831 Edition of the Gothic Horror Classic

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principal and another as all that can be conceived of noble and Godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honor that can befall a sensitive being; to be based and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more object than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. I cannot conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I details of advice and bloodshed, my wonder seized, and I turned away with discussed and loathing.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein