Carla Bordonaro

“Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“I think I made you up inside my head.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“The least Charles could have done,' Constance said, considering seriously, 'was shoot himself through the head in the driveway.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle