Blake

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven