Carolyn

“Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler

“I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Don't you remember how you once answered a question of mine? Me - I shall never forget your words. Those words of yours opened my eyes; they brought me the light of day. I asked you how the Germans could send Jewish children to die in the gas chambers. How, I asked, could they live with themselves after that? Was there really no judgement passed on them by man or God? And you said: Only one judgement is passed on the executioner - he ceases to be a human being. Through looking on his victim as less than human, he becomes his own executioner, he executes the human being inside himself. But the victim - no matter what the executioner does to kill him - remains a human being forever. Remember now?”
― Vasily Grossman, Forever Flowing