Charlene (Char) ❤︎ ❀˖° ❤︎

“Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“That is okay with me.” John Scott and Tomo stepped forward at the same time, eager to go, and they almost bumped into each other. John Scott waved. “Gentlemen first.” Tomo said, “More like pimp daddy first.” “You’ve been watching too much MTV, dude.” “Fa shizzle dizzle it’s the big Neptizzle with the Snoopy D-O-Double Gizzle!”
― Jeremy Bates, Suicide Forest

“Earth Breathes in Us.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“The sky, it was ashen and sober,’” Abilene intoned. “‘The leaves, they were crisped and seer. Twas night in the lonesome October of my most immemorial year.”
― Richard Laymon, Blood Games