Alison Lee

“His genius was betrayed by lofty and indomitable traits of character which could not yield or compromise. And so his life was a tragedy of inconsequence”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

“Because dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Some people—who haven’t lost someone they love unconditionally and more than themselves—think a year is plenty of time to get over the trauma of their death and you should have fully moved on. Fuck you, it’s not.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn