Selma (سلمى)

“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.

- Bad Blood”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Morality is a weakness of mind.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History