2012 Quote by Roman Payne

“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress. (—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)”

— Roman Payne

“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and had the…

— Arthur Golden

“There, tam, la-bas, the gaze of men glows with inimitable understanding; there the freaks that are tortured here walk unmolested; there time takes shape…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“She is sixteen and her skin is the darkness before the black, the plum of the day’s light, her breasts like sunsets trapped beneath…

— Junot Díaz

“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those other pleasures…

— Marcel Proust

“Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights.”

— Melody Lee

“Meanwhile, in the expansiveness of her joy, the Moon filled all of the room like a phosphoric atmosphere, like a luminous poison; and all…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Romantic haste in drama brings tears and sighs when the hero dies but the curtain fall is final when in life we take the…

— C.P. Klapper

“The waves, the girl in the rain, and that awful, blood-begotten stom. Blood and love and loss.”

— Terri Farley

“Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your…

— Kouhei Kadono

“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there were too…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found…

— George Eliot