Lilith Mühlberg

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Werewolfism may have scared men in particular, being less accustomed than women to the idea of a monthly, biological cycle beyond their control, which involves the shedding of blood, not to mention a potentially beastly mood.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore

“her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning