Marah

“But now remember, my dear. Don’t try so hard. You’ll see. In life you
move toward the things you like and away from what you don’t,” Gretchen
said.

“It’s that easy?” I asked her. Her arm was so skinny and fragile, but I
could feel her weight like determination.

“Yes, it’s that easy,” she said. Then she laughed. “The hard part is to just
keep moving.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, In the Company of Crazies

“Yes, it would look like she was smuggling an ostrich with a tarp on it into a motel room, but this also looked like the type of establishment to not particularly judge for that sort of thing.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Sometimes, when this flawed world seems unusually hateful, I wonder whether there might be some other place, far away, where I should have been. I cannot seem to imagine what that place might be, and if I can't even imagine it then how can I believe it exists? And yet the universe is so very, very wide, and perhaps it might exist anyway? But the stars are so very, very far away. It would take a long, long time to get there, even if I knew the way. And I wonder what I would dream about, if I slept for a long, long time...”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“It is an intolerable anguish to hate someone you loved so badly, because neither emotion can ever feel honest again.”
― shaekspeares