Cory

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Lastly, if you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits and demolish lives, let this book erase that doubt. Conversely, if you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change those dry words, let this book give you heart.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

“At this solemn moment, he would like to have some rare, sublime experience—hear a message from the world beyond—send his thought flying into ethereal regions, inaccessible to mortal senses. But no! his thought remains obstinately grovelling on the earth;”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters