Diana

“At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities. Hundred-year wars were fought over whether Jesus was human in divine form or divine in human form. Belief is murderous.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Writings

“come at the price of your soul, when you are melancholy more often than not, when you are fierce in a world of feathers and folly, when you’re alone in every room you enter, you do not fit in. You never will. I know you.”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera