Laura

“All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl.”
― Anne Rice

“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums