Bedazzlebub

“Thus reinforced, they spent the noonday hours spinning dreams like cobwebs, and dodging demands like nets.”
― Robert Aickman, The Model

“She awoke long before dawn and lay exhausted and wakeful, with her eyes closed, thinking of the countless years she still had to live.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“You used to say you would never forget me. That made me feel like the cherry blossom, here today and gone tomorrow; it is not the kind of thing one says to a person with whom one proposes to spend the rest of one's life, after all. And, after all that, for three hundred and fifty-two in each leap year, I never think about you, sometimes. I cast an image into the past, like a fishing line, and up it comes with a gold mask on the hook, a mask with real tears at the ends of its eyes, but tears that are no longer anybody's tears.
Time has drifted over your face.”
― Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

“Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.”
― Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales