Kate

“Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Wine is bottled poetry.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales