Lucy

“I told him before he departed that all my life when I have seen more than two men together I have seen foolishness and I have seen cruelty, but it is foolishness I have noticed first.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary

“Kind of guy who steps out of the shower to piss,”
― A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

“If water can be changed into wine and the dead can be brought back, then I want time pushed back.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary

“For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.”
― Frances Farmer, Will There Really Be a Morning?