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“I know it's not the whole story, but my memory of her is dark and warped. It's bloated and twisted. A creature of its own. A malignance I've created that lives inside my head.”
― Kayla Maiuri, Mother in the Dark

“She had challenged him on this point one night at Anne and George's, inhibitions weakened by Ronrico: "Explain this Mass to me!"

There was a silence as he sat still, apparently looking at the dinner plates and chicken bones. "Consider the Star of David," he said quietly. "Two triangles, one pointing down, one pointing up. I find this a powerful image—the Divine reaching down, humanity reaching upward. And in the center, an intersection, where the Divine and human meet. The Mass takes place in that space." His eyes lifted and met hers: a look of lucid candor. "I understand it as a place where the Divine and the human are one. And as a promise, perhaps. That God will reach toward us if we reach toward Him, that we and our most ordinary human acts—like eating bread and drinking wine—can be transformed and made sacred.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“What you wouldn't give to be in charge, but you'll never have the strength. Too busy aching in the shadows. We're the same, the two of us. You're just desperate to be seen. So desperate you'll kill for it. Die for it.”
― Caitlin Starling