Kyleen

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“He leaned companionably closer to Bolt's ear, and the smell of Uncle Charlie's breath suggested that he'd had sardines and beer for dinner at a pub, then smoked cigars and drank whisky for a while, then vomited in a ditch while he was stumbling home in the rain.”
― Dan Chaon, One of Us

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems