spooky blossom.

“When will they fight?” I asked. “Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man’s work.” I laughed. “I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.”
― Tanith Lee, The Birthgrave

“How often is it the case that, when impossibilities have come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty substance into tangible realities, we find ourselves calm, and evenly coldly self-possessed, amid circumstances which it would have been a delirium of joy or agony to anticipate!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter

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

“The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws are arrived at by selective abstraction.”
― Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World