Nell

“Rain turned to ice,
and lightning splintered, it spliced
the black sky, it seeped a bright white.
All animals they fled,
from the sky as it bled,
pale death that fell veiling the night.”
― A. Lee Brock, Penny Willan and the Well: A Fairy Tale of Ode

“Painful memories, they can mend,
love’s powerful, but it can rend,
through the treacherous act of jealousy.
A passion that seeks to destroy,
the soul when it deploys,
the vicious sin that is envy.

Take heed my friends,
when contemplating the end
of an imagined rival for the heart’s true amour.
Acts of envy bode not well,
for they cast an evil spell,
and in the end you’ll suffer forevermore.

For jealously can blight,
the harmonious light
of all the love you’d hoped to see,
because envy has power,
and can inhumanly devour,
everything you wanted from love, for thee.”
― A. Lee Brock, Penny Willan and the Well: A Fairy Tale of Ode

“She would've made an excellent pirate.”
― Erica Ridley, Too Sinful To Deny

“When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest