Poly Irin

“Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience.”
― Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart”
― Christina Perri

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane