“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’”
-Lewis Carroll
“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!”
-William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”
-Joe Hill, Horns
“Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.”
-Neil Gaiman
“Isn’t Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare?
-Christopher Hitchens
“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
-Charles Dickens
“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins”
-Walt Whitman
“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
—Mark Twain
“Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
-Virginia Woolf
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.”
-Donna Tartt, The Secret History