Xinyue

“They say that, for a madman, every day is a holiday, but they also say that insanity has seventy gates.”
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

“Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious something is, the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world; and the more we love it, the more we are saddened that it is like finely powdered salt that runs away through the fingers, or is puffed away by the wind, or is washed away by the rain.”
― Louis de Bernières

“My body is both weapon and wound, predator and prey. I will self-destruct without any help.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed