Lexi

“They really were the people from the well - they'd fallen into it long ago and had now arranged their lives at the bottom of it, thinking the well was the entire world.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“While I saw the destruction of the tree as nature’s beauty, Victor saw power—power to light up the night and banish darkness, power to end a centuries-old life in a single strike—that he cannot control or access. And nothing bothers Victor more than something he cannot control.”
― Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“Perhaps it was this idea of self-expression and this thought that if we were fully to release this sadness, or if we were to alter it too much--if we were to give up all the obsessions and anxieties that caused us pain-then we would become a kind of person we disdained, someone content with an abstract idea of the littleness of their lives. For our lives were, as writers, essentially little by nature. Writers have to lead lite lives, otherwise you can't find time for writing. Was depression simply a hanging on to grandeur?”
― Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

“Lightning clawed across the sky, tracing veins through the clouds and marking the pulse of the universe itself.”
― Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein