JOY

“It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“When I have to die, I would like to die
on a day of rain -
long rain, slow rain, the kind you think will never end.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm