Frances

“Shame, turned inside out, is rage.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

“The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don't wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did.”
― Jellal Fernandes

“Banality is the adopted disguise of a very powerful will to abolish conscience.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“If the mortal sin of the suicide is greed, to hoard stillness and calm for yourself while dispersing your riotous internal pain among all those who survive you, then the mortal sin of the martyr must be pride, the vanity, the hubris to believe not only that your death could mean more than your living, but that your death could mean more than death itself—which, because it is inevitable, means nothing.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!