Persephone

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex