“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
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