Elijah Sands

“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye