Daisy

“With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.”
― Percival Everett, James

“It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. The man who has never submitted to anything will soon submit to the burial mat.”
― Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

“It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire’s time has come.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot