JM

“You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds?” “Same as the blues?” “No,” she said slowly. “No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is. You’ve had that feeling?”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“You’ve got to be sensitive to appreciate her: a streak of the poet.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Mortal beauty often makes me ache,”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby