Jillian

“I could love anything on Earth that appeared to wish it.”
― Lord Byron

“I am prepared for any crime, my sister, / To burn the palace, and into the flaming ruin / Hurl Tereus, the author of all evils. / I would cut out his tongue, his eyes, cut off / The parts which brought you shame...”
― Ovid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Books 6-10

“By day or night, in weal or woe, That heart, no longer free, Must bear the love it cannot show, And silent ache for thee.”
― Lord Byron, Lord Byron: The Collected Works

“It was less the fact of Yoshiko's defilement than the defilement of her trust in people which became so persistent a source of grief as almost to render my life insupportable. [...] Yoshiko's immaculate trustfulness seemed clean an pure, like a waterfall among green leaves. One night sufficed to turn the waters of this pure cascade yellow and muddy. Yoshiko began from that night to fret over my every smile or frown.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human