Melody

“We haunt the past to refuse to let it lie comfortably as it was.”
― Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.”
― Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession

“I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright.”
― Eli Brown, Cinnamon and Gunpowder