Dragoncatty

“Time had some score of small voices in that shop, some stately and slow as was becoming to their great gar, others garrulous and hurried. All these told out the seconds in an intricate chorus of tickings.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim

“happy are women that can weep, and in a passionate caress disburthen the oppression of their feelings; shame and habitual restraint hold back a man.”
― Mary Shelley, The Last Man by Mary Shelley:With Original illustration

“In my view, the biggest challenge for the
writer, within Nigeria or outside it, is to write about the place in a balanced way. What you want to do is take that anger, that fury, that
observation of the suffering of the people, and let it form into something creative within you.

The greatest risk I see is that the fury
might obscure another important part of the story: that Nigeria is livable, that people live well in Nigeria, and in some ways it isn’t all
that different from living anywhere else.”
― Teju Cole, Eight Letters to a Young Writer

“At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. I had not a moment to lose, but, seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, "Now is the time! Save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek. Do not desert me in the hour of trial!"
'"Great God!" exclaimed the old man, "who are you?"
'At that instant the cottage door opened...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein