Johnie Rafla

“The South, which is peopled with ardent and irascible beings, is becoming more irritated and alarmed.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Blackness. Nothingness. It was in the shape of a giant, hazy shadow, enveloping me, swallowing me, and digesting me into the unknown. It was my biggest fear and my ultimate fate.”
― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl

“Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“hedonism.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy