Aisha

“Jesus was a revolutionary, in the most elemental sense. In him alone - in him alone the legislator and the demon fuse. He has been taken over just as Marx was taken over. Perverted by the Pauls, Augustines, Constantines, the institution-mongers, the doctrine men. We crucify him over and over.”
― David Rudkin, Penda's fen

“I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again.”
― Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

“I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro