Kam Ho

“To have your ear tweaked by the Emperor was regarded as the greatest honour and the highest mark of favour at the French court.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I was conscious of a love growing into adoration, and also of abhorrence. This I know is paradox, but I can make no other attempt to explain the feeling.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“As Euripides once said, ‘Those whom God wishes to destroy he first drives mad.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace