Dio

“There exists a field, beyond notions of right and wrong. I will meet you there.”
― Rumi

“A hundred thousand good deeds could be done and helped, on that old woman’s money which will be buried in a monastery! Hundreds, thousands perhaps, might be set on the right path; dozens of families saved from destitution, from ruin, from vice, from the Lock hospitals—and all with her money. Kill her, take her money and with the help of it devote oneself to the service of humanity and the good of all. What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? For one life thousands would be saved from corruption and decay. One death, and a hundred lives in exchange—it’s simple arithmetic! Besides, what value has the life of that sickly, stupid, ill-natured old woman in the balance of existence! No more than the life of a louse, of a black-beetle, less in fact because the old woman is doing harm. She is wearing out the lives of others;”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Of course,' he said, 'it is possible to be haunted by the living as by the dead.”
― Reggie Oliver, A Maze for the Minotaur

“You absorb the story, know it in your bones and then without deciding how you’re going to tell it just open your mouth and let it come out the way it wants to come out.”
― John Moriarty, A Hut at the Edge of the Village