01UndatedOh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.Simona Panova / quote ↗
03UndatedEverybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –Simona Panova / quote ↗
04UndatedStrength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.Simona Panova / quote ↗
05UndatedI always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.Simona Panova / quote ↗
06UndatedHave a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –Simona Panova / quote ↗
07UndatedEven I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...Simona Panova / quote ↗
09UndatedSo, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –Simona Panova / quote ↗
14UndatedI’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –Simona Panova / quote ↗
16UndatedYou kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?Simona Panova / quote ↗
17UndatedDon’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?Simona Panova / quote ↗
19UndatedMy ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.Simona Panova / quote ↗
20UndatedParanoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –Simona Panova / quote ↗
21UndatedThe unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.Simona Panova / quote ↗
22UndatedAnd I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...Simona Panova / quote ↗
23UndatedGray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me.Gray...Simona Panova / quote ↗
24UndatedI was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of the truth hiding behind their endearingly smooth textures and tender soothing colours.Secrets could be so irresistibly beautiful...Simona Panova / quote ↗
