Eve

“For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; strained by dread: such dread as children only can feel.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Why did i obsess over people like this? Was it normal to fixate on strangers in this particular vivid, fevered way? I didn't think so. It was impossible to imagine some random passer-by on the street forming quite such an interest in me.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“But history is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe knot it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I noticed, for instance, that dreams under the midnight sun tended to be highly coloured, and this my friend the photographer confirmed.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita