Rosie

“Before I do anything I feel that I have choice, and that influences what I do; but afterwards, when the thing is done, I believe that it was inevitable from all eternity. It’s no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
― William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“When they drew apart, it was by a fraction only. 'My love, what's left of me is yours,' he whispered.”
― Stephanie Scott, What's Left of Me Is Yours

“He felt himself and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than he had been before.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it - only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World