The seven Deadly Sins | Envy

If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant.

Jane Kenyon, from “Taking Down the Tree,” Collected Poems (via hecatese)

I was born for politics. I have great hair and I love lying.

Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513 (via incorrecthistories)

He’ll burn you down like wax if you let him. You’ll think it’s love, while he dines on your heart.

Cathrynne M. Valente, Deathless. (via feuerdove)

I enjoyed the danger and the intensity.

Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Evil thoughts became my sole intimates — the darkest and most evil of thoughts.

- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” (via greatliteraryquotations)

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via fleurdelecours)

               a WOLF is a WOLF.

                                               even in a CAGE.

                                                                         even dressed in SILK.

Lying Odysseus replied, ‘I will tell you the truth completely.’

Odyssey 24.303-4, trans. Emily Wilson (via terpsikeraunos)