Caroline

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung;
The world was very old indeed when you and I were young.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Garden of Proserpine

“Mad woman on another tour;
Everything she is she spits out on the floor.
An old man tells me she's sicker than the rest.
God I've never been afraid like this.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves