Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
❝ The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. ❞
Edgar Allan Poe, Romance
❝ And so, being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. ❞
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
❝ Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I’m thankful for it. It’s like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here. ❞
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
❝ How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. ❞
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
❝ I like being myself. Myself and nasty. ❞
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
❝ How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? ❞
Albert Camus, The Stranger
❝ In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ❞
George Orwell, 1984
❝ If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ❞
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
❝ I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. ❞
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
❝ If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear! ❞
