Irene

“I thought, I should feel relieved that, deep down, I really don’t want to drink. But I didn’t. I only felt like I’d lost a certain amount of desire, and that desire was a bad thing to lose in any capacity, even desire for something you shouldn’t have. It seemed stoic to want a drink but not to take it, whereas it was merely sad to not even want one anymore.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Lust & Wonder

“I'll go to them," he said in the softest voice. "And I will take the gold you offer me, and I will seek refuge in this tower. And I will learn from your passionate fledgling whatever he has to teach me. But I reach for these things only because they float on the surface of the darkness in which I am drowning.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“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

“Es raro ver cómo en el presidio poco a poco se van muriendo las ambiciones. Soñé alguna vez con un cielo y muchos años después de haber vivido como el más despreciable de los animales, decía que si se me permitiera barrer las hojas de uno de los jardines bonitos de mi pueblo hasta que me hiciera viejo, iba a sentirme el hombre más feliz del mundo.”
― José León Sánchez, La isla de los hombres solos