Camille

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Master sailor Tokuzō has set sail on New Year's Eve even though it is forbidden to do so, whereupon a violent storm breaks out, and the close-cropped head of a massive monster rises out of the waves like a mountain. Unafraid, Tokuzō calls out "Nothing is as scary as making one's living!" and the monster vanishes away.”
― Ei Nakau, Something Wicked from Japan: Ghosts, Demons & Yokai in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces

“This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

“In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night