S. Elizabeth > S.'s Quotes

“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.”
― Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland

“The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Depression is boring, I think
and I would do better to make
some soup and light up the cave.”
― Anne Sexton

“Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”
― Angela Carter

“Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.”
― Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book