Ines

“Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of great intelligence and education...endowed with the ability to act for the common good. But, in the depths of his soul, the older he became and the more closely he got to know his brother, the more often it occurred to him that this ability to act for the common good, of which he felt himself completely deprived, was perhaps not a virtue but...a lack of something - not a lack of good, honest and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of life force, of what is known as heart, of that yearning which makes a man choose one out of all the countless paths in life presented to him and desire that one alone.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The news of Kitty's friendship with Mme Stahl and Varenka, and the observations conveyed to him by the princess about some change that had taken place in Kitty, troubled the prince and provoked in him the usual feeling of jealousy towards everything that interested his daughter to the exclusion of himself, and a fear lest his daughter escape from his influence into some spheres inaccessible to him.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“She (Kitty) and Levin were carrying on their own conversation, or not a conversation but some mysterious communication that bound them more closely together with every minute and produced in both of them a feeling of joyful fear before the unknown into which they were entering.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Every day I think what a fascinating and amusing adventure this is! With all that, why should I despair?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl