Claudia

“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe”
― MARY SHELLY, Frankenstein

“I look down past the stars to a terrifying darkness. I seem to recognize the place, but it's impossible. "Accident," I whisper. I will fall. I seem to desire the fall, and though I fight it with all my will I know in advance I can't win. Standing baffled, quaking with fear, three feet from the edge of a nightmare cliff, I find myself, incredibly, moving towards it. I look down, down, into bottomless blackness, feeling the dark power moving in me like an ocean current, some monster inside me, deep sea wonder, dread night monarch astir in his cave, moving me slowly to my voluntary tumble into death.”
― John Champlin Gardner Jr., Grendel

“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”
― Donna Jo Napoli, Sirena