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“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

“And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”
― charles baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Every moment must be first known and then savored.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.'
Because he got hurt?'
No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“Mischa, we take comfort in knowing there is no God. That you are not enslaved in Heaven, made to kiss God’s ass forever. What you have is better than Paradise. You have blessed oblivion. I miss you every day.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“Hannibal had entered his heart’s long winter. He slept soundly and was not visited in dreams as humans are.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“The little boy Hannibal died in 1945 out there in the snow trying to save his sister. His heart died with Mischa. What is he now? There's not a word for it yet. For lack of a better word, we'll call him a monster.”
― Inspector Popil

“When I said that Mercy stood Within the borders of the wood, I meant the lenient beast with claws And bloody swift-dispatching jaws. —LAWRENCE SPINGARN”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“Love. I love”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“What's your favorite book?
"The last one I read.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I hate you."
I love you."
You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."
I'm trying not to be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“But right now I’m here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”
― Edvard Munch

“I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.”
― Edvard Munch

“Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.”
― Edvard Munch

“The sea – it is as incomprehensible as existence – it is incomprehensible as death – as eternal as longing.”
― Edvard Munch