Patrick

“. . . calamity comes for every one of us, and assumes the shape that will be sure to hurt us most.”
― Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

“The Amanita phalloides... holds three different poisons. There is amanitin, which works slowly and is most potent. There is phalloidin, which acts at once, and there is phallin, which dissolves red corpuscles, although it is the least potent. The first symptoms do not appear until seven to twelve hours after eating, in some cases not before twenty-four or even forty hours. The symptoms begin with violent stomach pains, cold sweat, vomiting-”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“She’s has craters you didn’t create and darkness you don’t deserve. She’s as stunning as the moon on a cloudless night, but it may take millennia for her to find and manifest her own internal sunlight.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Introvert Fact #4: We hate being the
centre of attention.”
― Franka Capuano, Shy Gal: An Introvert's Journey Through High School