Irene

“Sam did not believe his body could feel anything but pain, and so he did not desire pleasure in the same way that other people seemed to. Sam was happiest when his body was feeling nothing. He was happiest when he did not have to think about his body — when he could forget that he had a body at all.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Ahora sé lo que es tener durante muchos años una mano atada a la otra mano, una pierna a la otra pierna y el alma entera amarrada a la miseria. Ahora sé cuál es el valor de los hombres que por estar solos son.”
― José León Sánchez, La isla de los hombres solos

“What then, I thought to myself, madam, if I were utterly without Laws, as humans are? What if I could make no clear decision on what response to make to some given set of conditions? It would be unbearable and I do not willingly think of it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire

“Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon—everything belonged to the men who had the guns”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved