Narrator: She said no.

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive. PS. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free. PS. - Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. PS. - Robert Green Ingersoll

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent. PS. - Publilius Syrus

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. PS. - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“People under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.” PS. - Franz Kafka, The Trial

In some darkened corner, an evil troll named Karma was rolling on the floor laughing, hysterically. PS. - Belle Malory, The Twelfth Keeper

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. "One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right". PS. - J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.” www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/16/k...

She was overwhelmed with a premonition. Deja vu but from the future, looking back to this moment looking forward. PS. - William Kely McClung,  Black Fire

A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can shut down an entire system. PS. - Wayne Dyer

Dolores Abernathy: Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Did you ever stop to wonder about your actions? The price you'd have to pay if there was a reckoning? That reckoning is here. PS. - Westworld

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens. PS. - A Long Way Down

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well. PS. - Terry Pratchett,  Sourcery

Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act. PS. - Ai Weiwei

Vanity, thy name is vampire. PS. - Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“I’m not going to sit here and listen to you tell me that it’s okay for August to hit her because she’s his wife. Or that it’s not his fault because he’s insane. If he’s insane, that’s all the more reason she should stay away.” PS. - Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. PS. - Rousseau Jean-Jacques

It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you. PS. - The Iron Heel

What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane. PS. - Stephen King, The Shining

Once, upon being asked to name the most beautiful of all things, Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BCE) replied parrhesia, which in Ancient Greek means something like ‘uninhibited thought’, ‘free speech’, or ‘full expression’. getpocket.com/explore/item...

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. PS. - W. Somerset Maugham

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. PS. - Terry Pratchett, Snuff

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. PS. - Helen Keller

We are all okay with our choices until a heavy consequence is attached to them. - Richelle E. Goodrich

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. - Philip K. Dick

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. PS. - mayhaps Winston S. Churchill

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them. PS. - George Orwell, 1984

In the long run, this cycle may pose a threat to A.I. itself. Research has shown that when generative A.I. is trained on a lot of its own output, it can get a lot worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry." PS. - Paulo Freire

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. PS. - André Malraux

“It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children, and blood for men." PS. - A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Consider who we're dealing with here. Give a wolf a taste of your leg and he'll ask for your hand.” PS. - Seven Samurai

I'm with you. Just concentrate hard and think to me. It's telepathy. Over. PS. - Flash Gordon

"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people" PS. - Stellan Skarsgård

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to. PS. - Norman Mailer

When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser...IT'S A CRISS-CROSS! PS. - tagline, Criss Cross

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control. PS. - Lucy Freeman, Before I Kill More ...

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. — Alvin Toffler