Samar

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain