Monty

“She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.”
― Walter Pater

“Our relationships can destroy us, but they can change us, too, and restore us, and without us ever seeing it happen, they define us. We are human because the people around us make us human.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“They asked for my story. I have told it. Enough.”
― Susan Hill, The Woman In Black

“For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.”
― Susan Hill, The Woman in Black