It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. 

Philip K. Dick in VALIS

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck in East of Eden

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms

There is a sense in which we are all each other’s consequences.

Wallace Stegner in All the Little Live Things

There are some things that are so unforgivable they make other things easily forgivable. 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Half a Yellow Sun