Diana Marinelli

“She went indoors in that peculiar state of misery which is not exactly grief, and which especially attends the dawnings of reason in the latter days of an ill-judged, transient love. To be conscious that the end of the dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“Love is real--the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses