Kirsty

“This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“Empis … Bella … Arabella … there are other worlds than these, Charlie.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“How did you get these salaries?’ ‘The big ones you get from LinkedIn,’ says Tia. A lot of cocaine dealers are now using LinkedIn, Connie has noticed; she keeps getting requests.”
― Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune

“Enough,” he said; “the cough’s a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.” “True — true,” I replied;”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 50 Masterpieces of Gothic Fiction Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...