“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? ...For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.” ― Marilynne Robinson
“Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph” ― Robert E. Howard
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.” ― Poppy Z. Brite
