Lorena

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common. Ambition and atheism: "Ambition is my only religion," JB had told him[...] Only here did you feel compelled to somehow justify anything short of rabidity for your career; only here did you have to apologize for having faith in something other than yourself.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History