Nastia

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”
― Margaret Atwood, Der blinde Mörder

“That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth