Rob Pallanes

“Raise your sights, sugar. Aim low all you'll hit is rats, snakes and rock bottom" from Epitaph”
― Mary Doria Russell, Epitaph

“With the city like this, don’t we have greater needs than poetry?”
― China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

“And you love Edgar, and Edgar loves you. All seems smooth and easy: where is the obstacle?"
"Here! and here!" replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and another on her breast: "in whichever place the soul lives. In my soul and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree