“I don’t know if these two have some sort of romance or are planning another nationwide crime.
Knowing Sahed, it could be both.”
― Marionetta
Knowing Sahed, it could be both.”
― Marionetta
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
“What sort of noise does a balloon make, adrift? None. No, not quite. It noises itself, it soughs, like the wind billowing your curtains all white as breaths of foam. Or it makes a sound like the stars turning over in your sleep. Or it announces itself like moonrise and moonset. That last is best: like the moon sailing the universal deeps, so rides a balloon.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“So there they go, Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay with Jim, Jim breaking two windows in a haunted house because Will’s along, Will breaking one window instead of none, because Jim’s watching. God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation
― Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation
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