Klára

“solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Most humans were not malicious, only drastically misguided and desperate in their loneliness. They learned at some point that there was an eccentric core to their personality and that it was possible no one else shared their own brand of eccentricity. They put up screens around that core to shield from embarrassment and shame. For all the pompous forms in which writers and musicians have described it, love was surely that moment when the screens might come down in front of another human, if only for a moment, and freely give them a long, unfettered look into the true middle where the fear and anguish lives.”
― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

“You must not be alone, for to be alone is to be full of fears and alarms.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
― Hilaire Belloc