Dresden Crace

“Strength has no meaning unless it is used in the service of the weak. One stick may be snapped but the bundle is the community, and the community will never break.”
― Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air

“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Because you're lukewarm, not hot or cold, you'll spill out of my mouth like vomit.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human