Ivana

“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you,--you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Ivan Ilyich's life had been most simple and commonplace–and most horrifying.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror!”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death Of Ivan Ilyich