Caoimhe C

“Devil' I exclaimed, 'do you dare approach me? and do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone, vile insect! or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! and, oh! that I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus:

“It was, therefore, mainly by the random workings of winds and currents that this fragrant ship of death had been brought hither to me.
And this was the first direct intimation which I had that the Unseen Powers (whoever and whatever they may be), who through the history of the world had been so very, very careful to conceal their Hand from the eyes of men, hardly any longer intended to be at the pains to conceal their Hand from me.”
― M. P. Shiel (Author), The Purple Cloud

“By retrieving the memory of collective memory in an individual memory, she will capture the lived dimension of History.”
― Annie Ernaux, The Years

“People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) by Sylvia Plath (3-Mar-2003) Paperback