Adam Cartwright

“We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.”
― J.G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.”
― Don DeLillo, End Zone