“To be shrill is to reach above your station; to abandon your duty to soothe and please; in short, to be heard. I”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“Both a hero and a villain reside in everyone ,,, a savant and a stooge ... a lover and a hater. Only the proportions and degrees of each set us apart.”
― Lee Stone

“Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“But there is panic and pandemonium waiting to break out inside all of us, of this I am convinced. I’ve seen it roar out among the dying, as a last protest against the human condition and its chronic sadness. But it is there in the most balanced and rational of us. You just need the right circumstances, and it will surely appear. And then you are at its mercy. The panic takes some to God, others to despair, some to charitable works, others to drink, some to emotional oblivion, others to a life where they hope that nothing serious will ever trouble them again.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story