Angie J.

“the promise of the glamorous and free life of a diplomat, seeing and experiencing the entire world, was the stuff of dreams. It had helped that she’d totally bought into the propaganda that she was part of an elite group, a crème de la crème representing her country, an important cog in the state machinery that served national interests. Looking back, she should have known that her first trip was but a mild introduction into a soul-less life.”
― Cassandra KD Gilbert, Memories of Midnight: A Darling Diplomat Novel

“if there is no God, then, you might ask, who governs the life of men and, generally, the entire situation here on earth?”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Everyone likes to look for aliens, but I think we are the aliens. We’re the descendants of the troublemakers on other planets. Just like Australia was a prison to England, where they sent all their criminals and so on, it’s the same thing on Earth. This is where they dropped us off. We’re the insane fucking people from somewhere else, just a bunch of trash.”
― Neil Strauss, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

“whatever humanness he had left felt the strangest of pleasures: that of offering eager obedience to a stronger power that was wholly right.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife