Yelena

“La Beauté c'est la Mort.”
― Mishima Yukio

“It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature but as the essence of conscious existence. It is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self at the self’s most elementary levels. It is a nausea of the cells and soul.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.”
― Yukio Mishima

“Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.”
― Jane Yolen, The Books of Great Alta