Consuelo Shimsky

“The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles--preferably of his own making--in order to triumph. A hero without a flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe, which, after all, is based on conflict and opposition, the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“Конец человека – знание, но одного он не может узнать: он не может узнать, спасет его знание или погубит. Он погибнет – будьте уверены, – но так и не узнает, что его погубило: знание, которым он овладел, или то, которое от него ускользнуло и спасло бы его, если бы он овладел им.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“I don’t know what frightens me more,
the power that crushes us
or our endless ability to endure it.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram