Juliana

“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Summertime

“If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.”
― J.M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass