Anya

“For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“Y cuando miré, entonces, en el espejo aquel ídolo perverso, tuve conciencia, no de un sentimiento repulsivo, sino más bien de la brusca transición producida y del buen éxito de mis tentativas. Aquel ídolo, por lo demás, era yo mismo.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, El Extraño Caso del Doctor Jekyll y el Señor Hyde (Anotado)

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you? Maybe that was it. It was some kind of mirror, but it was incomplete, distorted.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle