emily

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room