Chloe

“Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

“In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem … but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.”
― E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White