Suzie

“Stiff shoulders humped over the writing-table, and the ache of a heart slow to move. A tortoise heart.”
― J.M. Coetzee, The Master of Petersburg

“Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it." "You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look--”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice.”
― José Saramago, Blindness