Peter Farago

“Suicide was a sin. It would condemn her for eternity. But so was murder, even a just one sought out of righteous grief.
The revenger always dug two graves, they said. One for his victim. One for himself. She’d never understood that old saying till now.
Either way she was dead.”
― A.J. Hartley, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

“Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

“It had lasted no more than four days—four days which were perhaps the happiest days of his life. But now he had exhausted his memories, was sated by them, and the image of Mary, together with that of the old dying poet, now remained in the house of ghosts, which itself was already a memory.
Other than that image no Mary existed, nor could exist.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

“....the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesn’t give out ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract.