Tracyene

“Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“people had the mistaken idea that Poe wrote fantastic stories about the supernatural, when in fact he wrote realistic stories about abnormal psychology.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“What’s LIFE? A Magazine. How much does it cost? A dime. I only gota nickel . Well, that’s life.”
― Adela Crandell Durkee, A Ship of Pearl

“I had no mind then for anything except Sebastian, and I saw him already as being threatened, though I did not yet know how black was the threat. His constant, despairing prayer was to be let alone. By the blue waters and rustling palm of his own mind he was happy and harmless as a Polynesian; only when the big ship dropped anchor beyond the coral reef, and the cutter beached in the lagoon, and, up the golden slope that had never known the print of a boot there trod the grim invasion of trader, administrator, missionary and tourist – only then was it time to disinter the archaic weapons of the tribe and sound the drums in the hills; or, more easily, to turn from the sunlit door and lie alone in the darkness, where the impotent, painted deities paraded the walls in vain, and cough his heart out among the rum bottles.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited