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“The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright