Bawny

“There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.”
― Patrick McGrath, The Grotesque

“In order to gain their freedom, survivors may have to give up almost everything else. Battered women may lose their homes, their friends, and their livelihood. Survivors of childhood abuse may lose their families. Political refugees may lose their homes and their homeland. Rarely are the dimensions of this sacrifice fully recognized.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Such people are their own punishment.”
― Charles Palliser, Rustication

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman and an irritable young one. And with only the books I had brought with me, most of which were still in my trunk anyway.”
― Charles Palliser, Rustication