Marina

“Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another?”
― Luigi Pirandello, Uno, nessuno, e centomila

“Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“I'm going to think only about you, it's the only way I'm conscious of myself...”
― Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories

“Why am I here, says the silence, what have I done, echoes the emptiness, why have I ruined myself in this wilful manner, chuckles the money in the till, why have I been brought so low, wheedles the thoroughfare, to which the only answer was—The square gave him no answer.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano