Theya Absey

“Man is the only creature with the power to control instinct by his own will, but he is also able to suppress, distort, and wound it - and an animal, to speak metaphorically, is never so wild and dangerous as when it is wounded.”
― Aniela Jaffé, Man and His Symbols

“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. In most cases, not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami

“When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far you can't follow them all the way to the end.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“You believe you have the time to put off that phone call you haven’t made to your mother. You let an old argument fester. You fold down the page in a travel magazine and tell yourself one day, you’ll get to Istanbul or Santorini or back to the town where you were born. You have the luxury of time, until you don’t - and then it becomes clear what’s most important.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways