melmoth

“What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

“The name yawned like a black doorway, then the door banged.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde