Tao Hansen

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again!”
― Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator

“Dorcas’s skin was flecked with little golden freckles, and she was so slender that I was always aware of her bones; yet she was more desirable in her imperfections than Jolenta had ever been in the lushness of her flesh.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor

“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
― Sappho