Vampyress

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“After this, satisfied with the way in which he had conducted himself at Meung, without remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he retired to bed and slept the sleep of the brave.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers Collection

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
― Leon C. Megginson

“We'll take up where we left off, Esther,' she had said, with
her sweet, martyr's smile. 'We'll act as if all this were a bad
dream.'



A bad dream.



To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead
baby, the world itself is the bad dream.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar