Fox

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“This is all of you I care to touch. Just this part." "The ruined part." "The part that’s mine.”
― Nghi Vo, The City in Glass

“She was gentle and pale,
and her eyes seemed
always to dream
of something I didn’t understand.”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)