when is a monster not a monster?

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we’d go crazy.

Hades is relentless and untamed- So mortals hate him most of all the gods.

call me medusa for my monstrosity is not mine to bear, but yours to fear.

Petersburg, loveliest of all hallucinations, the shimmering mirage in the Northern wilderness glimpsed for a breathless second between black forest and the frozen sea.

You can be with someone for months, a year, and not know whether you’ve lost them. Sometimes, you keep on losing someone even after they’ve left.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.