Elvira > Elvira's Quotes

“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
― Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 01

“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider

“I defy anyone who retains the least spark of honour to spit on the real, essential love of one human being for another.”
― Alfred B. Douglas, The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas

“The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“And, when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.”
― William Hope Hodgson, The William Hope Hodgson Megapack: 35 Classic Works

“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover