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“Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man”
― Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse

“I know, though, that we'd have to come from a better family to be able to bury our childhood - we'd have to lie under a layer of earth ourselves, but the time isn't ripe for that yet.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“Eller så består en människa av flera olika personer", säger jag. "Vi kanske lägger ihop våra olika jag hela tiden." Vi kanske plockar in dem när vi gör våra olika val, bra val och dåliga val, när vi gör bort oss, när vi gör oss till, när vi förirrar oss och förivrar oss, när vi älskar, när vi sörjer, när vi kastar oss ut i världen, när vi gömmer oss för den, när vi skapar saker, när vi förstör saker.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I'd say he's gone over the edge now. He wasn't to begin with, of course, but it does something to you, you know. Killing people. It makes you feel powerful and larger than life. It makes you feel you're God Almighty. But you're not. You're only a nasty bit of goods that's been found out.”
― Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse