whyisbasildead

[whyisbasildead]

"But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem."

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[whyisbasildead]

Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[whyisbasildead]

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[whyisbasildead]

"I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter , and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[whyisbasildead]

"Yes, if my hand is trembling, then it's because such a pretty small hand like yours has never clasped it before."

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights