Onyx

“I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Not everything that's true needs to be said.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“In certain fiction, she perceives truths that she rarely finds in nonfiction; therefore, in her quest to better understand the world and the meaning of her life, she reads those novels that suggest a world of wonders, dark and light, forever unfolding for eyes willing to see.”
― Dean Koontz, The Moonlit Mind

“They are with us still, the Greeks and Romans, even as, thrust by Saturns, nestled in Apollos, we take to the stars an odyssey of man that began on the shores of a wine-dark sea.”
― Merle Severy, Greece and Rome: Builders of our World