E.H. Visiak > Quotes

“She has a bookshelf for a heart, and ink runs through her veins, she’ll write you into her story with the typewriter in her brain. Her bookshelf’s getting crowded. With all the stories that’s she’s penned, of all the people who flicked through her pages but closed the book before it ended. And there’s one pushed to the very back, that sits collecting dust, with its title in her finest writing, ‘The One’s Who Lost My Trust’. There’s books shes scared to open, and books she doesn't close. Stories of every person she’s met stretched out in endless rows. Some people have only one sentence while others once held a main part, thousands of inky footprints that they've left across her heart. You might wonder why she does this, why write of people she once knew? But she hopes one day she’ll mean enough for someone to write about her too.”
― E.H.

“It's the moments when it's darkest,
like one long eternal night,
that it's of the most importance,
to turn your face to the light,
but this you must remember,
if it's the last thing that you do;
sometimes the light is outside,
but sometimes the light is you.”
― EH

“She blacked out all her windows,
scared she wasn't worth the light,
spent far too long in darkness,
for someone so afraid of night,
and as she felt her world cave in,
her fragile ribcage strain,
she wondered if there's more to life,
than just mind-numbing pain.”
― EH

“What if I fall? "Oh, my dear, what if you fly?”
― e.h.

“Perhaps superhuman beings used us as we used animals, for food and work— a different sort of food and work. Perhaps they used our physical or mental forces in some way. We killed animals’ bodies. Perhaps they killed or tampered with people’s minds ; so that they went mad. We were being put to work, harnessed— or some of us were: the ones they wanted.

And these superior beings might be used by beings superior to them— like that Chinese picture of everything preying on everything, from the lowest upwards. . . . But, used or not used, he was not going on any longer...

("The Shadow")”
― E.H. Visiak