titania

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since."

"this then is my story. i have reread it. it has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies. at this or that twist of it i feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than i care to probe.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
― Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom