- edgar allan poe
“We men are wretched things”
- Homer, The Iliad
“It hurts to be something / it’s worse to be nothing with you.” - Promise, Laufey
“Forget thus the nature of men, for love makes fools of the hands it holds/ Think not the torment that comes from kissing the thorns/ For a rose is often scornful before it is adored.”
- the play i’m currently writing <3
“If I am the Phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so.”
- Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
i just saw kill your darlings and it changed my fucking life. now, what am i supposed to do with that
deciding which book on my mountainous TBR to read next is a very specific kind of torture
- a glimpse into my writing google docs
“Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires”
-Shakespeare, Macbeth