Lilienknochen

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle