Shae B.

“Maybe a mouse gets to thinking pretty early on how the whole world is run by these enormous feet. Well, from where I sit, I figure the world is run by one thing and this one thing only. Panic with a dog-face, devil-face, hag-face, whore-face, panic in capital letters with no face at all—it’s the same Johnny Panic, awake or asleep.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“If the twinkling of the stars pains me, if this distant communication is possible, it is because something almost like a star quivers within me.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart