Natalia

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History