Raeza A.C.

“I think you should send Penny away.” When Caine started to object, Albert, finally evincing his impatience, raised his hand. “First, because Penny is a sick, unstable person. She was bound to cause problems, and she’ll cause more. Second, because what happened to Cigar turns everyone against you. It’s not just Quinn: everyone thinks it’s wrong. And third, if you don’t and if Quinn stands firm, this town will empty out.”
― Michael Grant, Fear

“The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive. And am I less to You, my God, than they?”
― Robert Hayden, Collected Poems

“Thus repulsed, our final hope
Is flat despair: we must exasperate
The Almighty Victor to spend all his rage;
And that must end us; that must be our cure,
To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night,
Devoid of sense and motion? And who knows,
Let this be good, whether our angry Foe
Can give it, or will ever? How he can
Is doubtful; that he never will is sure.
John Milton, Belial
(Book II Paradise Lost)”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I don't know what keeps me mingled—
in excitement and grief.

I know no name of this fire I burn in—
but only that it is and I am.”
― Rafy Rohaan