Ashwise

“Spirits like her are not drawn to the happy and carefree; they want salt, be it blood or be it tears.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

“the Marines, if successful, would prove even more extraordinary than an attack on the embassy. The Marines were, after all, a symbol of American might. For the operation, he brought in Abu Haydar Musawi, who commanded a martyrdom group known as the Husayni Suicide Forces. On October 18—the same day Reagan’s”
― Jack Carr, Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

“I practise lucid dreaming. Every night I dream I have sex with the actor Pedro Pascal.”
― Gillian Anderson, Want

“. . . there’s something missing from my life, something dreadful, something darling.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing