#this quote slaps

You're all monsters, but all the best stories are about monsters.

"Faustus. Was not that Lucifer an angel once? Mephistophilis. Yes, Faustus, and the most dearly loved of God. Faustus. How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils? Mephistophilis. O, by aspiring pride and insolence." - Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

"What art thou then? I cannot guess; But though I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

"She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies." - Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty

"Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor’s voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?" - Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

"I would prefer not to." - Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener

"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." - Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver), Invisible Cities