Words and Things

“Each time she glanced in his direction, she was struck with the fact that this measly slip of a man had had the power to destroy her husband’s career. Every bit of loathing she had for him was there on display for Willum to take in.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd; the way your mother warned you about, essentially.”
― Joey Comeau

“The seeds of our own destruction lay among those who stand knee deep in some crop while steadfastly denying any knowledge of any such seeds.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Self-destruction meant nothing to those madmen, in their bomb-shelters, who were preparing for their own death and apotheosis. All that mattered was not to destroy oneself alone and to drag a whole world with one. In a way, the man who kills himself in solitude still preserves certain values since he, apparently, claims no rights over the lives of others. The proof of this is that he never makes use, in order to dominate others, of the enormous power and freedom of action which his decision to die gives him.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel