Scarlet Spell

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King