Cassandra

“But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
― Rumi

“The way Lillian says it is hungry, like she’s waiting for something to be revealed, and I wonder if maybe that’s the real difference between us—that when she pulls back the curtain and stares into the blackness behind it, it’s just one more way of testing herself. Like some game you can never win, because even if you face all the shocking realities and the horrors of the world, once you’ve seen that kind of awfulness, you can never un-see it. You have to carry it around with you forever.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Paper Valentine

“Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.”
― David Foster Wallace