Dianna

“Sometimes you terrify me,” he says. But he is smiling, so it is fine.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“She was dying to look, but she supposed that if she lived her life properly then by the time it was over she’d know what was in it. That was sort of the whole point, wasn’t it? To understand your own story? Reading the book now would just be cheating. And what kind of jackass cheats at life?”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”
― Kate Chopin

“Ruth had been right: Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders. We hadn’t been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go