Hannah

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“To everyone in the foyer reading the lists, or on the sidewalks waving signs and photos of their families who’d disappeared, I said over and over again: “Everyone is dead.” If they insisted, showing me family photos, I’d calmly say: “Were there any children? Not a single child will come back.” I didn’t mince my words, I didn’t try to spare their feelings, I was used to death. I’d become as hard-hearted as the deportees who saw us arrive at Birkenau without saying a single comforting word. Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.”
― Marceline Loridan-Ivens, But You Did Not Come Back

“It's strange to own anything, Beverly thinks, even your flesh, that nobody outside yourself ever touches or sees.”
― Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories

“He should have recognized that what really fascinated him was the hunt, the adventure of searching out his victims. And, to a degree, possessing them physically, as one would possess a potted plant, a painting or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.”
― Ted Bundy