Raïssa

“She was a non-active member of the Order of the Phoenix and did not fight.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard. I wonder what you could have turned into without the war”
― SenLinYu, Manacled