Jed

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“At first she was so inexpressive and indifferent that I wanted to know more about her. I envied that blankness - it was the opposite of helplessness or damage or craving or suffering or shame. But she was never really happy and already, in a matter of days, she had reached a stage in our relationship where she no longer really cared about me or any thoughts or ideas I might have had.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.”
― Elena Ferrante

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories