Isabella Zenkl

“Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner

“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August