Alison Lee

“There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

“STAVE: Commala-come-key Can ya tell me what ya see? Is it ghosts or just the mirror That makes ya want to flee? RESPONSE: Commala-come-three! I beg ya, tell me! Is it ghosts or just your darker self That makes ya want to flee?”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Do you believe in evil, Meg? As a force external to man?” “Like the devil?” “Yes. Or a force that can inhabit people. Turn them into monsters.” “It’s an interesting question. Mostly I take the Jungian view that we create the idea of monsters in order to externalize the bad that potentially lurks within us all, and we call this monster a devil, or beast, so we can examine it objectively, without having to see the beast in our own eyes when we look into the mirror.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Waning Light

“I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent