Irene

“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

“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

“More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.”
― Toni Morrison

“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