Sofia

“People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“He feels a nausea of distaste for them all; then sudden rage. Damn all food. Damn all life. He would like to abandon his shopping-cart, although it's already full of provisions.But that would make extra work for the clerks, and one of them is cute. The alternative, to put the whole lot back in the proper places himself, seems like a labour of Hercules; for the overpowering sloth of sadness is upon him. The sloth that ends in going to bed and staying there until you develop some disease.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

“I call it Dante’s Syndrome,” John said. I had never heard him call it any such thing.
“Meaning I think Dave and I gained the ability to peer into Hell. Only it turns out Hell is right
here, it’s all through us and around us and in us like the microbes that swarm through your
lungs and guts and veins. Hey, look! An owl!”
We all looked. It was an owl, all right.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods