Cherise Malabe

“The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“I realized that I was on a sticky wicket that just received another bout of acid rain.”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding