#the secret history

He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up

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My longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at

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One likes to think there’s something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I’ve learned one thing in my short

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Forgive me, for all the things I did, but mostly for the ones I did not....

"We read to know we're not alone." - William Nicholson, Shadowlands...

Leo Tolstoy Edgar Allan Poe Kahlil Gibran Charles Baudelaire Rainer Maria Rilke Donna Tartt Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

❝ I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I lift my lids and all is born again. ❞                                  — ???......