Sofia Jauss

“Since he was sixteen, he had been continuously sexually active, either with a girlfriend or through a series of casual flings. From the point of someone like Kibby, he considered, he would be regarded as highly succesful with women.

But the real problem is relationships, which fucking social retards like Kibby can't grasp, because they're just so obsessed with getting their hole.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

“We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English

“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“but it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History