Ali

“All monsters have their fits of depression.”
― Rachilde, Monsieur Vénus

“There is no greater bore than perfection.”
― Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty’s limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one’s control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power.”
― Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics