Poppi

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.”
― Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India