norah

“Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.”
― Lana Del Rey

“Don’t you see? I’m not the spirit of any age. I’m at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!’ It was too painful, too perfectly true. “But his face only brightened with an irresistible smile. He seemed on the verge of laughing at me, and then his shoulders began to move with this laughter. ‘But Louis,’ he said softly. ‘This is the very spirit of your age. Don’t you see that? Everyone else feels as you feel. Your fall from grace and faith has been the fall of a century.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“how I suffered then, straining to remember the seas that a young man’s untutored senses had taken for granted, that an undisciplined memory had let slip away for eternity.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?”
― George Orwell, 1984