Mad Kaitos

“That room - once you enter it, you never really leave. You can forget you're there, you can go on as if you hold the reins, that the course of your life, yeah even its length, will reflect the force of your character and the wisdom of your judgments. And then you hit an icy path on a turn one sunny March day and the wheel in your hands becomes a joke and you no more than a spectator to your own dreamy slide toward the verge, and then you remember where you are.”
― Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

“Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“فاني اكره الانتقاد ... لاننا كثيرا ما ننتقد الناس مر الانتقاد فلا تكاد الظروف تضعنا في مواضعهم حتي نصبح شرا منهم ونفعل شرا مما فعلوا
وقد علمتني الظروف الا انتقد امرا لاني لو استطعت ان اري بعينيه وافكر بعقله لما فعلت الا كما فعل”
― يوسف السباعي, نائب عزرائيل - البحث عن جسد

“Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.”
― Patrick Modiano, So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood