Ronald

“In Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist Holden Caulfield mentions reading books that make him wish he could be friends with the author and be able to call him on the phone and so forth. I would consider a literary work that made someone feel this way a success. Furthermore, it’s the only kind of success in literature that means anything to me.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“Strangeness which is the essence of beauty is the essence of truth, and the essence of the world. I have often felt that; when the ascent of a long hill brought me to the summit of an undiscovered height in London; and I looked down on a new land.”
― Arthur Machen, The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering

“But surely,’ I said at last, ‘Love is stronger than Death?’ ‘We must believe so, Martin, even when it appears to be untrue.”
― Reggie Oliver, The Ballet of Dr Caligari and Madder Mysteries

“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe