“She learned her alphablet from ghosts and heard bedtime stories from the decaying throats of the dead, and we all know what this kind of nurture does to a girl.”

— Nikita Gill, from “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters,”

“He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
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“He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world—all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst.”

— Daphné du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel (via antigonick)