Collin

“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Lila looked to Kell. “You didn’t teach me this one.”
His jaw was slack. “I … I didn’t know it.”
Holland gave them both a bland look. “Amazing,” he said dryly. “There are still things you haven’t learned.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike— for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale