Dolorous Haze

“We walk in deception and must build the most honest world we know.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“The sun began its dip behind the horizon and the walls sunk to augmented beige, and he could feel his body in the walls forty years later.”
― B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

“Here, she said, there was no need to create stories of witches whose solution to everything was to simply devour the children.”
― J.M. Hushour, Weatherhead

“He wrote up the cases of his own patients who believed themselves to be someone other than themselves. There were Virgin Marys, Christs and Gods, Marilyn Monroes and Elvis Presleys. Movie stars and even characters from literature took over the lives of Ambrose’s patients. Jane Eyre sometimes screamed in an imaginary red room at Mandala.”
― Carmel Bird, The White Garden