“ Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading. ”
At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.
~ Robert Aickman
Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.
No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.
Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.
