Elena

“I'm not what anyone thinks I am. I never was. I didn't have the mouth to put it into words, to say what was wrong, to change the things I felt I needed to change. And every day it was difficult, walking around and knowing that people saw me one way, knowing that they were wrong, so completely wrong, that the real me was invisible to them. It didn't even exist to them. So: If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“... but the unlikely happened more often than one would be disposed to believe.”
― Agatha Christie, The Clocks

“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details ... and they call the result intuition.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“At least I have a heart,” the professor snarled. “While you … you …” Big professor tears welled up in his eyes. “You just have a big, cold brain!”
― Jo Nesbø, Bubble in the Bathtub