“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
-Albus Dumbledore”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― When We Were Very Young
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― When We Were Very Young
“I just sit where I'm put, composed
of stone and wishful thinking:
That the deity that kills for pleasure will also
heal,
That in the midst of your nightmare,
the final one, a kind lion will pick your soul
up gently
by the nape of the neck,
And caress you into darkness and paradise.
~ Ruth Zardo, poet and character in All The Devils Are Here”
― All the Devils Are Here
of stone and wishful thinking:
That the deity that kills for pleasure will also
heal,
That in the midst of your nightmare,
the final one, a kind lion will pick your soul
up gently
by the nape of the neck,
And caress you into darkness and paradise.
~ Ruth Zardo, poet and character in All The Devils Are Here”
― All the Devils Are Here
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