Brooklyn

“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
― Edgar Alan Poe, Berenice

“Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein