Clemente Versace

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes.”
― A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six Deluxe Edition

“So what do I do with the rest of my time? he thought. Live rent-free with my parents, write in my notebooks, go out dancing, catch a buzz, get laid? It doesn't sound so bad. But what if I only have, say, five more years to live?”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse