Dorian

“I wanted to be enclosed forever with people who believed I could be good.”
― Anne Rice

“You do not need a moral and noble story to do what you want. You do not first need to be a victim to become a monster. Your loved ones need not be taken from you so that you might drink and brutalize and chase the sublime. Life is fleeting and meaningless and crying to be seized from behind and fucked into obscurity.”
― C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

“This kind of love seemed strange to me. It was not out of love that I'd obeyed my mother, not really. It was out of fear, the way a person might placate a punishing God. Ultimately, I'd always been terrified that if I didn't please my mother, she would smite me.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“You, too, have mysteries of your own. I know that you must have dreams that you don't tell me. I don't want to know them. But I can tell you: live those dreams, play with them, build altars to them. It is not yet the ideal but it points in the right direction. Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world someday remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day, otherwise we just aren't serious. Don't forget that!”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian