Jeff

“He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the qualities that go to make an utter madman.”
― Machado de Assis, O Alienista

“That’s how he saw the contradictory and even unbearable situation of being enclosed in a language that didn’t think like he did but like his father: that’s where those desires to rebel against his own home came from.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Informers

“Life was like one big marching army. Death ran alongside and picked off a soldier here and there, but that didn’t affect the army. Its march continued, and its size didn’t seem to diminish. On the contrary, it grew on into eternity, so that no one was alone in death. Someone else would always follow. That was what counted. Such was the chain of life: unbreakable. But”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“Even the most normal person, if placed in a highly abnormal situation, can be mistakenly perceived as the source of abnormality of the person/circumstance aggregate”
― Rivka Galchen, American Innovations