tanis [now using storygraph, find me there]

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.”
― patrick suskind, Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle