Nightshade

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
― Toni Morrison