spooky blossom.

“It had occurred to me I was not courageous, had never been brave, only arrogant or unthinking.”
― Tanith Lee, The Birthgrave

“But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals who neither love nor understand him”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I do not think I was afraid. There must be substance to breed fear, and I was hollow.”
― Tanith Lee, The Birthgrave

“If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter