Socorro Aemmer

“To be capable of shutting the world out, even death itself, and surrendering to the body, trusting in its powers, its secrets. No feeling but this. No feeling”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“Hate can be just as intimate as love.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself