Shaquita Stern

“Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him—and it was still hot.”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“Partout où la propriété est un droit individuel, où toutes choses se mesurent par l’argent, là on ne pourra jamais organiser la justice et la prospérité sociale, à moins que vous n’appeliez juste la société où ce qu’il y a de meilleur est le partage des plus méchants, et que vous n’estimiez parfaitement heureux l’État où la fortune publique se trouve la proie d’une poignée d’individus insatiables de jouissances, tandis que la masse est dévorée par la misère.”
― Thomas More, L'Utopie

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“O universo explodia, cada partícula distante da outra, lançando-nos violentamente para o espaço escuro e solitário, eternamente nos separando um do outro – criança para fora do útero, amigo longe de amigo, mudando-se para lugares distantes, cada um com seu próprio caminho rumo à caixa de recompensas da morte solitária.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flores para Algernon