Vlada

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The bird that plucks its own feathers
cannot blame the wind for its chill.

The tree that bends willingly
cannot fault the storm for its sway.

The flame that softens to the dark
cannot accuse the night of its fading.

The stone that erodes with its own weight
cannot lament the gradual loss.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask.”
― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts,”
― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow