Vermillion

“There is none other like me. There is none other like her. We are unbelievable, impossible. I fly as high as the Heavens which cast me out. I have run out my comet's course: she is the world, I have sought out. Round her I have cast the loop of my orbit, and am held fast and safe; she is my Sea of Tranquility, my Milky Way, bearded with Berenice's Hair. I am a new constellation, pegged out in the sky. I am joy. Complete. For ever.”
― Rosie Garland, The Palace of Curiosities

“The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic.”
― Stephen Fry

“By all the Gods, there is nothing to match a man for tedium. We call it sport and joshing, but there is loneliness at its core.”
― Rosie Garland, The Fates

“Goths choose to live with paradox, and taking your look seriously while laughing at yourself is just one of the many dualities they manage to balance.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined