Elyse

“The zipper opened all the way down our spines.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient