Tom the Teacher

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Ones own soul, and the passions of one’s friends—those were the fascinating things in life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles