Ashlia

“This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.

I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“Should I remove my soul before I come inside?”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

“Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex