Noha

“Men we have never met took our son. They took him without our express permission. They tortured him then they … killed him. And there is no understanding it. There is no meaning. No coming to terms with it. Not now. Not tomorrow. Not ever. We will wake up every day for the rest of our lives and we will breathe razor blades and we will swim through bleach. And there is no escape from this. There is no comfort. There is just … blades and bleach. Until we die.”
― Philip Ridley, Shivered

“There is certainly no purpose in remaining in the dark
Except long enough to clear from the mind
The illusion of having ever been in the light.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

“And them and their descendants, to the last of their race, I, Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do this last night of the year 1767, in my unbearable agony, denounce to the times when all these things shall be answered for. I denounce them to Heaven and to earth.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Life is not merely the space between sleeping.”
― Anthony Neilson, Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness