Matt

“At last he whispered: 'Sylvia, it is I.'
Again he said, 'It is I.'
Then, knowing that she was dead, he kissed her on the mouth. And through the long watches of the night the cat purred on his knee, tightening and relaxing her padded claws, until the sky paled above the Street of the Four Winds.”
― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

“Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers.”
― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

“When you are spoken of, it begins with recounting your death, before going back to explain it. Isn’t it peculiar how this final gesture inverts your biography?”
― Edouard Levé, Suicide

“It takes courage to keep love at the center when you know just as well as anyone else the real state of things! It’s easy to get angry, anyone can do that. It’s making good that’s the hard part, it’s staying hopeful that’s the hard part! It’s staying in love that’s the hard part.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt