Dorian

“There are only two kinds of people who are truly fascinating: People who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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

“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