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“The past is nothing. We are everything.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Sometimes my eyes open and I know, somewhere in my bones, that I have formed myself to the shape of waking up beside you.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Is it too late to love you, Lev Fedorov?” she asked him, her hands finding his, and he shook his head, pulling her with him.

“Sasha, it’s never too late for us”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Don't forgive me...if you can't, and certainly don't love me...You'll only make fools of us both.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I think you're the opposite of insufferable, I suffer you gladly.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“But what they don’t know is this: As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“He was the only man in the house, but he
also was the house. They lived inside his moods.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“believe in nothing but a woman’s capacity to survive disappointment”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“Could you fall out of love with life if you were never in love with it?”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“Their family had always been good at hellos and goodbyes, moments ending even as they began. It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“You are not that important.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“She'd heard once that guilt was for something you'd done- you could feel guilty for a certain behavior or action but still fundamentally know you were a good person- but shame was deeper, shame was for who you were.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“Her sister curled in on herself, as though she could make herself small enough for the hurt not to find her.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden