Herself Defined

“I find,' he says, his voice still muffled, 'that I am constantly wondering where he is. Where he has gone. It is like a wheel ceaselessly turning at the back of my mind. Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can't have just vanished. He must be somewhere. All I have to do is find him. I look for him everywhere, in every street, in every crowd, in every audience. That's what I am doing, when I look out at them all: I try to find him, or a version of him.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“Sometimes, in this multifaceted world of ours, inconsistency can be more eloquent than consistency.”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“People the world over turn to religion for salvation. But when religion hurts and maims, where are they to go for salvation?”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement; Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them; Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers.”
― Es’kia Mphahlele