Alexa

“Well, for a considerable time after you were born, you had no such reason for rejoicing in your form. You were then a mere cabbage-insect, a hairy worm; and you were so poor that you could not afford even one robe to cover your nakedness; and your appearance was altogether disgusting. Everybody in those days hated the sight of you.”
― Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

“Babi (alt. spelling Baba) is a bloodthirsty Baboon God.”
― Patrick Auerbach, Egyptian Gods: The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

“There's nothing precious about life, Linus. People say life is precious, and sleep soundly in the thought that they're good and just, but everything they do is counter to that. Every hurt they do or help to do is at its heart anti-life. And it's not that in itself that makes me hate, but the hypocrisy of it all. The hypocrisy of it all is what makes me into–––I hope she razes this place to the ground. I hope she buries it in the sea." Abiron”
― Aaron Ward, Anaxagoras

“Noise harms your body and boils your brain. The word "noise" derives from the Latin word nausea.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit