Braden

“What sustains me is to know that I shall always fabricate a god in the image I require in order to sleep peacefully, and that others will quietly pretend that we are all justified, and that there is nothing to be done. All this because we are astute by nature and the bastions of something. And above all, because we try not to understand.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Foreign Legion

“What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia of Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides. The Greek text as arranged for performance at Cambridge with an English verse translation

“My partner had made perhaps ten strokes before the sap rose within him and he fell upon my back, smothering me like a collapsing building.”
― Stewart Home, 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess

“Do you believe in hell, Justina?"
"Yes, Susana. And in heaven, too."
"I only believe in hell, " said Susana.”
― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo