Sana

“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself—will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows—some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history—But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, “This fact I can do without.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Moreover, dissonance-evoking situations have been found to evoke a general negative affect without also evoking increased self-directed negative affect (Elliot & Devine, 1994) or decreased state self-esteem (E. Harmon-Jones, 2000a).”
― Eddie Harmon-Jones, Cognitive Dissonance: Reexamining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology

“Roscille wonders how many women have stood precisely where she is standing, watching their husbands disappear. Roscille wonders how many of them have imagined the sword-thrust that will make them widows. She wonders how many smiled at the thought.”
― Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

“This is a man's first, last, and greatest fear: a world that exists empty of him.”
― Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth