Martina

“This was the real world then- Beauty and I free to have each other and all the others gone. Just the two of us in my bedchamber, where I should envelop her naked soul in rituals and ordeals beyond our past experiences, our dreams. No one to save her from me. No one to save me from her. My slave, my poor helpless slave...”
― A.N Roquelaure, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“You’re like part human, part rainbow.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground