Todd

“I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die”
― Tony Kushner, Angels in America

“... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Not caring for their lives' is it?
Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.”
― Marcel Proust

“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad, the prerogative of the wicked. And when they allow themselves for a moment to enjoy it they endeavour to impersonate, to identify with, the wicked, and to make their partners do likewise, in order to gain the momentary illusion of having escaped beyond the control of their own gentle and scrupulous natures into the inhuman world of pleasure.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way