Maddie

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.”
― Francis Bacon

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”
― Stephen King

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History