Mary

“Memory is an unannounced visitor. It lies crumpled in some corner of the body, then suddenly knocks on the door of reality and makes you scream.”
― Shin Kyung-sook, Violets

“Maybe part of fighting the unhappiness in this world is to seize happiness when we can.”
― Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei

“They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

“Francesco de Pazzi thereupon stabbed him with such frenzy, plunging the blade time and again into the unresisting body, that he even drove the point of the dagger through his own tigh. Giuliano fell to his knees while two assailants continued to rain savage blows upon him, slashing and stabbing until the corpse was rent by nineteen wounds.
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall”
― Christopher Hibbert