B. Faye

“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

“This was the mother, the dead sister Ellen: this Niobe without tears who had conceived to the demon in a kind of nightmare, who even while alive had moved but without life and grieved but without weeping, who now had an air of tranquil and unwitting desolation, not as if she had either outlived the others or had died first, but as if she had never lived at all.”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

“you gonna curse the darkness or light a candle?”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“As I am. As I am. All or not at all.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses