Onionpol

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“for her dress when you saw it stirred you. And i rejoice.
In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because i prayed
this word:
i want”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights