It seems to me that the disaster about to occur was the event, which not only made the world rub its eyes and awake, but woke it with a start, keeping it moving at a rapidly accelerating pace ever since, with less and less peace,
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“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
“The dip in the centre tells the story of how close we used to be and pushes us toward one another even when we don’t think about it.”
― The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
― The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
“The memory of his thumb caressing my palm stabs me;”
― The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
― The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
“It’s like swimming through an organism so much larger than ourselves, with no other purpose than to discover the forgetting and to search for an empty nook to crawl into, waiting for nature to forgive me.”
― The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
― The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
“I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?”
― The Yellow Wallpaper
― The Yellow Wallpaper
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