juno

“The severed heads of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, made of papier-mâché-covered balloons, lay neatly in front of them, smiling benignly in wicker log baskets. Sugar-pink cardboard necks,”
― Debbie Young, Best Murder in Show

“peace characteristic of an artist's dwelling, where the human soul has toiled. Within these walls, where thought abides, struggles, and becomes exhausted in”
― Guy de Maupassant, Strong as Death

“Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.

This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

“Swallowing, Ivy felt her face warm when David snickered. “Bucktooth lost her place. If she lost her teeth maybe she'd read better.” Glaring at David, she forgot to be embarrassed. She hated him.”
― Nan Sweet, Fierce Winds and Fiery Dragons