DOLLY

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo
…Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage.”
― M. R. James, A Warning to the Curious

“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”
― Stephen King