Annie Hetrick

“This charm we find in other people is all in the mind; it's only love which makes the loved one appear so wonderful.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the true poetic intellect can end this long-established dualism.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

“I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“that’s the fate of a storyteller. We become nodal points for the grotesque. We are the ones who say, “Look!” while everyone peeks through their eyes, unable to confront darkness in full force. We articulate what no one else can even parse. We give a name to the unthinkable.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface