C.J. Mendoza

“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
― Wilfred Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen

“HARRY: I tell you, it is not me you are looking at, Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks Incriminate, but that other person, if person, You thought I was: let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase.… T. S. Eliot, Family Reunion”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger