Malissa Owen

“He would have had his hand chopped off before he would have allowed himself by a word, by a hint, to humiliate her, or even to fall short of the fullest respect a woman could look for.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch and many other people who worked for the public welfare were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He screamed Connell’s name, and began to kiss his head with wild exuberant kisses. It was only one-all, and there were still twenty minutes left on the clock. But that was their world then. Their feelings were suppressed so carefully in everyday life, forced into smaller and smaller spaces, until seemingly minor events took on insane and frightening significance. It was permissible to touch each other and cry during football matches.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“In her eyes the whole of him, with all his habits, ideas, desires, with all his spiritual and physical temperament, was one thing - love for women, and that love, she felt, ought to be entirely concentrated on her alone.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina