Mariano

“He fled the light and the knowledge the light implied, and so came back to himself. Even so do the rest of us; even so the best of us.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

“Another corner was dedicated to alchemy, another to witchcraft, another to philosophy of the most disturbing sort.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?”
― John Cheever, The Swimmer

“But could she see things clear like you can? Could she see straight through you? See through your hair and skin to your blood and bones? Did she ever give your cheek a lick to see how you tasted and tell what you would become? Did she have a scar on her chest like a door? Did she ever leave you for long periods? Did a squirrel ever come and sit on her shoulder and whisper in her ear?”
― Laird Hunt, In the House in the Dark of the Woods