Shell

“This was the state he strove for: relatively happy. Happiness could easily tip over into its antithesis and sadness was hard to overcome. One could maintain a fairly continuous state of relative happiness if one took it easy.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die

“One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it’s not okay.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

“It is perverse that love should be subject to the same conditions as the mortal flesh. That it should wither away and die with it.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die

“We destroy the present while forgetting the past.”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dismembered