“He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die.”
Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone
Source: She's Come Undone
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 17
“He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die.”
Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone
Source: She's Come Undone
Winston S. Churchill book The World Crisis
Concerning Admiral von Spee’s East Asia Squadron
The World Crisis, 1911–1914 : Chapter XIII (On The Oceans), Churchill, Butterworth (1923), p. 295
The World Crisis (1923–1931)
E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
What I Believe (1938)
Context: On they go — an invincible army, yet not a victorious one. The aristocrats, the elect, the chosen, the Best People — all the words that describe them are false, and all attempts to organize them fail. Again and again Authority, seeing their value, has tried to net them and to utilize them as the Egyptian Priesthood or the Christian Church or the Chinese Civil Service or the Group Movement, or some other worthy stunt. But they slip through the net and are gone; when the door is shut, they are no longer in the room; their temple, as one of them remarked, is the holiness of the Heart's affections, and their kingdom, though they never possess it, is the wide-open world.
With this type of person knocking about, and constantly crossing one's path if one has eyes to see or hands to feel, the experiment of earthly life cannot be dismissed as a failure. But it may well be hailed as a tragedy, the tragedy being that no device has been found by which these private decencies can be transmitted to public affairs. As soon as people have power they go crooked and sometimes dotty as well, because the possession of power lifts them into a region where normal honesty never pays.
Greg Egan (1961) Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer
The Demon's Passage http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Demons%20Passage <br class="br">Fiction
Haidar Malik Chadurah: Tarikh-i-Kashmir; edited and translated into English by Razia Bano, Delhi, 1991, p. 55.)
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Doctors