Maria

“I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“One last word," I said in my horrible English, "are you quite, quite sure that--well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow , but--well--some day, any day, you will not come live with me? I will create a new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope."

"No," she said smiling, "no."
"It would have made all the difference," said Humbert Humbert.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”
― George Eliot

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu