Miranda

“Wherever there is hatred between two people there is a bond or brotherhood of some kind.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Finally, slowly, I raise my head and lean back on my elbows and take in the sight of him. I'm struck by his voracity. He's like a ravenous child who has just been given food and prefers to choke on it. I'm not sure where this need for another man's sex comes from but I sense that on the other side of all the repression and self-censoring there exists an equally powerful fever.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“But complex and fanciful religions have been founded upon such simple and deceptive experiences, giving mythical names to vague entities, and creating an enormous vehicle for compounded superstitious belief. Have not these religions been more evil than good?”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“It was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights