Queen

“The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.”
― Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

“...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs

“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies