Alex C

“But I never did try very hard to please my mother. In fact, I never tried hard to please anybody at all after that day in the locked room. Now I only try hard to please myself. That is all that matters here. That is the secret thing I found.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“He simply didn't see the world as it really was, that was the explanation - neither the world nor the people he felt so sorry for. Because if you did see them for what they were, what on earth would make you want to fight and even die for them?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“Maybe people who thought they were being violated felt a bit better when they attacked other people in the same way.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Those who have a desperate need for others are more vulnerable to the exploitation of bad people than those who are perfectly fine in their own company.”
― Selim Güre, The Occult of the Unborn