julia!

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

“The goat convulses in my arms, and Dorothy starts laughing. Then she puts her arm up and juts her chin out, like she’s about to start doing the Dance of the Cuckolded Woodland Sprite, and I start laughing. She’s laughing, and I’m laughing, and I swear to Gods I’m the luckiest man in the world. I look at her, lit by fire, caked in blood, scored by the Shrieking of the Chorus and the wailing of a dying goat, and I wish I could marry her again. I wish I could marry her a hundred thousand times.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“She'd climbed in his heart without thinking, the way that a kid idly tongues a loose tooth.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.”
― Walter Burkert, Greek Religion