'Tis brief, my lord.
As woman's love.

"I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds"
"Well, they are, aren't they?"

Clockwork angel
(The infernal devices)

إنَّ الكوارثَ تتوالى بسرعة
حتّى لتقع الواحدة في أثر الأخرى.
لقد غَرِقت!!

Ophelia


Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser

O O Ophelia , you've been on my mind girl since the flood.

O O Ophelia heaven help the fool who falls in love.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions. 

Sir, I cannot make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased.

That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once.
How the knave jowls it to th' ground, as if it were Cain's jawbone that did the first murder!

What a tragedy!!

I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

there are more things in heaven and earth ,Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Richard floated on his back neck twisted unnaturally.
Mouth gaping, face frozen in a Greek mask of agony.
Blood crawled dark and sticky across his face from the crush of tissue and bone that used to be an eye socket, a cheekbone -now cracked and broken open like an eggshell.

إن الخروجَ مِن شيء إلى شيء، يجدُ الإنسانَ فيه دائماً مُعاناة ورهبة. إنهُ لهذا يهابُ الموت، ويهابُ كذلِك تغيير عقائدهِ وأزيائه النفسية. إننا لو كنا أمواتاً وعُرِضَ علينا أن نُصبِح أحياء لوجدنا في ذلِك مشقةً ورهبة، ولكرِهنا أن نُصبح أحياء، للسبب نفسه أي خوفاً من التغير والفراق. فالموت نفسهُ، وهو قمة المخاوف، ليس فيه ما يخيف سوى ما في أنفُسِنا من استعداد للخوف، فهو ليس مُخيفاً في ذاتهِ، بل في تقديرنا النفسي له.

It was the ponderous crouching demon Guilt.
At the time I didn't know him, but in the months to come he would climb onto my chest every night and sit snarling there, an ugly Fuselian nightmare.