Lacey

“Will you never understand that I am incorrigible?”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“A coward talks to everyone but YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder