Daniel Montague

“I’ve never known or understood what it really means to love or be loved. I’m not going to blame my past, but we all have one and it follows us around like a prison, always keeping us from the person we truly wish to be.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“When you’re a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you’re an adult you realize that’s the worst part of it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“In the creation of a “culture of cruelty,” Waller describes extreme desensitization, which often leads to a perpetrator’s perverse enjoyment and sadistic pleasure in his or her activities. These activities become an addiction and contribute to a larger social milieu wherein evil is encouraged and rewarded.”
― Susan J. Eischeid, Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

“That’s how it was—hip-hop on the way to school, Beatles on the way back, and in between, silence. He was in school, I was at home, Mikhael was at work. Three rivers that did not touch until the evening, when we joined into a single sea for a dinner that was sometimes noisy and sometimes quiet but always, always took place in total oblivion.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt