Shannon Knapp

“he was gibbering hysterically and when he saw the kid standing there looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“All I did was take refuge in the policemen’s convenient grasp, trembling and shedding silent tears of cowardice. When”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“By what right can we call this a system of “corrections”? Is it not, rather, the rubric for a slavishly obedient, oppressed, and humiliated existence?”
― Slavoj Žižek, Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj