Shelby

“I love you because you didn't fall in love with me.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“that which was once so sweet, which never existed in reality”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“What matters is that I'd love you so well, so well, Nastenka, that even if you still loved him and went on loving the man I don't know, my love would never be a burden to you. All you'd feel, all you'd be conscious of every minute, is that a very grateful heart was beating at your side, Nastenka, an ardent heart which for your sake--Oh Nastenka, Nastenka, what have you done to me?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little. But I was little too”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father