Abyr Bathory

“Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“My days are as long as despair can make them.”
― Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss

“The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear