Danielle Michu

“When you unwittingly stuck your hand into the wasps’ nest, you hadn’t made a covenant with the devil to give up your civilized self with its trappings of love and respect and honor. It just happened to you. Passively, with no say, you ceased to be a creature of the mind and became a creature of the nerve endings; from college-educated man to wailing ape in five easy seconds.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“There was nothing her own hands could do to retrieve it. But even as she mourned for it, she could not give it up. Not in her heart, not yet. She could not pull her body out of its paralysis, could not bring herself to strive for a new life while the deepest part of her still ached for the old.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“the Valar take upon them forms some as of male and some as of female; for that difference of temper they had even from their beginning, and it is but bodied forth in the choice of each, not made by the choice, even as with us male and female may be shown by the raiment but is not made thereby.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“But honestly? What I really wish? What I really wish is that I’d never met a single one of them. I wish I could take it all back. I wish I’d never gotten involved, because those fucking puppets ruined my life.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House