Doha Koma

“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke — Aye, and what then? —S. T. Coleridge, Anima Poetae”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs”
― Clive Barker, Weave World

“Ever since poets have written and women have read them (for which the poets should be most deeply grateful) women have been called angels so many times that, in very truth, in their simplicity of soul, they have believed the compliment, forgetting that, for money, the same poets have glorified Nero as a demigod . . .”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time