Olivia S

“Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first lesson the city taught me the hard way. The vast majority of us are merely pawns in someone else's game. Don't get defensive over this point. Embrace it. Once you do, you can begin to manipulate the board. Positioned correctly, pawns can checkmate kings.”
― Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

“They stood on the porch in the fading light, Jack in the middle, his left arm around Danny’s shoulders and his right arm around Wendy’s waist. Together they watched as the decision was taken out of their hands.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“In the sporadic but relentless mudslide of self-contempt that characterized those years, I decided that, not only wasn't I good in the sense of being a good boy, but I also wasn't good in the sense of being a good person.”
― Marc Lewis, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs

“The lion on the left had advanced all the way to the fence now; its muzzle was touching the boards. It seemed to be grinning at him. Jack backed up another two steps. His head was thudding crazily and he could feel the dry rasp of his breath in his throat. Now the buffalo had moved, circling to the right, behind and around the rabbit. The head was lowered, the green hedge horns pointing at him. The thing was, you couldn't watch all of them. Not all at once.”
― Stephen King, The Shining