Alyce

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
― Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley

“May the hair on your toes never fall out!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again