freya

“Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for they crimes. Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation; come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.”
― Mary Shelley

“i can’t shape my shame into an answer on the spot.”
― silas denver melvin, GRIT: a poetry collection

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He said to me once that one could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed or lust; a pure, painful
and primitive desire, a longing for everything that was not in oneself, a torment of the flesh, that carried one beyond the limits of one’s mind to other times and other places, and even, if one was lucky, to a place where there was no border between oneself and one’s image in the mirror.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines