Per aspera ad astra

Me and books, a love story

“I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.”

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”

“I want ( I want I want ) to be raw, skinless, erotic, religious. I want to be soft, whole, beautiful I want to pull out my insides and cast them in gold. I want you to kiss me now, please.”

"And who are you?" "I'm Willem Ragnarsson. And I will never let you go."

“Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?”

“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”

“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you”.”

“I am an angel who lies to God and spends her days on the border of hell seducing the demons with the piano fingers and the big wet brown eyes. I don't expect forgiveness and I'll never ask for understanding but when the days get warmer I wonder how it feels to be clean.”

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”