Thomas Lancaster

“MERCY. It was a word she’d rarely encountered”
― Michel Faber, Under the Skin

“I have to return some videotapes”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“And in the deepest recesses of his being, Dorrigo Evans understood that all his life had been a journeying to this point when he had for a moment flown into the sun and would now be journeying away from it forever after.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North