Dorian

“By that logic, a relationship is just a cult with two people. Well, okay, two or more. A shared language, shared rituals, devotion to ideals like fidelity or love, or getting really into renaissance fairs together.”
― Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

“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

“He was not particular about it, he did not differentiate between what is commonly considered a good and a bad smell, not yet. He was greedy. The goal of the hunt was simply to possess everything the world could offer in the way of odors, and his only condition was that the odors be new ones. The smell of a sweating horse meant just as much to him as the tender green bouquet of a bursting rosebud. The acrid stench of a bug was no less worthy than the aroma rising from a larded veal roast in an aristocrats kitchen. he devoured everything, everything. Sucking it up into him.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“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