Emily

“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he’d carried around the shop on his shoulders; and then one day she was gone, replaced by a foreigner, an uncooperative woman he didn’t know how to speak to. Being so confused, so weak, so in love, he chose strength and drove her away from himself. The last years he spent wondering where she’d gone, and slowly came to realise that she would never return, and that the husband he’d chosen for her was an idiot.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.”
― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

“To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger