John Pappano

“Honda knew nothing of her past, but she seemed like a sad bit of fruit pickled in the vinegar of grief.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3

“Dallas appealed to Wren for the reasons some people disliked it. At first glance unspecialized, covered with characterless concrete, flat, and landlocked, the city felt big enough to disappear in but not big enough to get lost in. It mirrored a quality of emotionlessness Wren tried to embody herself.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“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

“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