Dolorous Haze

“It has been said that heresy is the revenge of a forgotten truth.”
― R.A. Lafferty, Fourth Mansions

“I wondered about the masterminds who were directing all the mayhem. Did they really hope to survive? Or was I missing the point? Did they intend, instead, to incinerate themselves and all of us with them? Like mummified pharaohs and their entombed slaves. Why do that? Maybe just to prove that they owned the world. After all, you don’t own something unless you can destroy it.”
― Stepan Chapman, The Troika

“A man is attracted to a woman, a woman to a man, and with each step they take towards each other they lose something of themselves: a series of defeats, where they had hoped for victories.”
― Karin Boye, Kallocain

“He wrote up the cases of his own patients who believed themselves to be someone other than themselves. There were Virgin Marys, Christs and Gods, Marilyn Monroes and Elvis Presleys. Movie stars and even characters from literature took over the lives of Ambrose’s patients. Jane Eyre sometimes screamed in an imaginary red room at Mandala.”
― Carmel Bird, The White Garden