• ❝our courts have their faults, as does any human constitution, but in this country our court are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.❞
      • to kill a mockingbird, harper lee
  • ❝to the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.❞
      • the bell jar, sylvia plath
  • ❝i saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and i could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.❞
      • the bell jar, sylvia plath
  • ❝one heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. they are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. there is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. that is what lies at the root of true harmony.❞
      • colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage, haruki murakami
  • ❝i am nothing. i’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. i reach out, but no one is there. i call out, but no one answers. i have no connection to anything.❞
      • 1q84, haruki murakami
  • ❝if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.❞
      • 1984, george orwell
  • ❝she was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.❞
      • good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of agnes nutter, witch, neil gaiman & terry pratchett
  • ❝scar tissue has no character. it's not like skin. it doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. it has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. it's like a slip cover. it shields and disguises what's beneath. that's why we grow it; we have something to hide.❞
      • girl, interrupted, susanna kaysen
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