Nyx

“There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.”
― Peter Shaffer, Equus

“His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

“A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

“Every harlot was a virgin once”
― William Blake