Efrain Mazzoni

“Broken or whole... you're all mine. You... are all mine! ~Sade~”
― Lucian Bane, No Mercy

“Happiness from long ago that hasn’t carried into today turns into a sadness that’s too much to bear.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

“I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange — ”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I wish," said Dr Perholt to the djinn, "I wish you would love me."

"You honor me," said the djinn, "and maybe you have wasted your wish, for it may well be that love would have happened anyway, since we are together, and sharing our life stories, as lovers do.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories