emma

“Imagine trying to hold the tail of a comet as it blazes across the heavens. It’s burning your hands, eating you up, but there’s no malice in it; a comet can’t possibly know or care about you. You will sacrifice all you are or ever will be for that comet because it suffuses every inch of your skin with a sweet itch you cannot catch, and through its grace you discover velocities you never dreamt possible.”
― Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

“It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.”
― Sarah Wilson, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla