John Pappano

“You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“When a picture is removed from the wall where it has long hung, it leaves a fresh whiteness the exact size and shape of the frame.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3

“He was speaking today on Daniel in the lion’s den, and he had come up with a phrase he liked, though he was aware of his own vanity in liking it, and he was repeating this phrase—“and did Daniel, in understanding his own sin, seek to be devoured”—”
― Hanna Pylväinen, The End of Drum-Time

“Since she seemed upset, I gave her some chartreuse and let her sleep.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3