— Ann Packer, The Dive From Clausen's Pier

Robert Eggers, from the original Nosferatsu script (2016)

Text ID: I have sought a creature from the depths. An Eve that remembers her Eden. You are such a one.

"'I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on--and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What's to be done?'"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (1945)

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  “Women who Run with the Wolves,” published in 1992

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922)

Martin Podt (@martinpodt)

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton; "Briar Rose,"

Lou Andreas-Salomé, from Looking Back: Memoirs; translated by Breon Mitchell

Text ID: Human life—indeed all life—is poetry. It is we who live it, unconsciously, day by day, like scenes in a play, yet in its inviolable wholeness it lives us, it composes us. There is something far different from the old cliche "Turn your life into a work of art"; we are works of art-but we are not the artist.

Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures (trans. Stefan Tobler) [ID'd]

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole

- Carl Jung