Baba Yaga Reads

“I KISSED YOU AND LATER I WOULD KISS HIM TOO BEFORE I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE, AND ALL THREE OF US LIVED TO REGRET IT—BUT WHEN I AM IN HEAVEN I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“La cattiva matrona, la guastafeste, la perfida moglie, io non posso vederla che coi miei occhi di bambina: eccola, rifulgente nella sua stola ricamata, nelle sue pietre preziose, nobile e bella come una Nostra Signora orientale. I suoi cattivi pensieri le splendono intorno al capo come un’aureola; e i desideri turpi e disumani che la trafiggono mi paiono spade sante.”
― Elsa Morante, Menzogna e sortilegio

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Sir. Might I with due respect remind you that Mister Vandemar and myself burned down the City of Troy? We brought the Black Plague to Flanders. We have assassinated a dozen kings, five popes, half a hundred heroes and two accredited gods. Our last commission before this was the torturing to death of an entire monastery in sixteenth-century Tuscany. We are utterly professional.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere