Mahsa

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita