Connor Stompanato

“And I tell you, pleasure and pain have nothing to do with heaven and hell.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest.”
― Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

“This is reality, this is pure fact - this forest, this moss, your hand, the ladybird on my leg, this cannot be taken away, can it? (it will, it was). This has all come together here, no matter how the paths twisted, and fooled each other, and got fouled up, they inevitably met here!”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“Maybe we all were born with trust and then lost it. Maybe we all had to find it again before we left.”
― Kassandra Montag, After the Flood