“And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
― The Book of Disquiet
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
― The Book of Disquiet
“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Can’t you see, these masks we wear betray us. They reveal us.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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