Beth

“I couldn’t bear the thought of anyone I knew seeing the person I had become. A person who was angry, depressed, stupid, and lost.”
― Sarah Vallance, Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain

“Laws are dangerous to everyone—innocent and guilty alike. No matter whether you believe yourself powerful or helpless. They have no human understanding in and of themselves”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Because—as I’d discovered—loneliness is not a function of company, but rather it is a consequence: an unpleasant symptom of a needy state of mind that desperately seeks to extract happiness from a source outside itself.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“So you know how to make a democracy do whatever you want.” A gloating expression. “The technique is quite subtle but easy. You create a system where most people are dissatisfied, vaguely or deeply.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune