Brigitta

“What a hard lesson it must be for you," she says. "That you can't have everything you want." "Want ?" he sneers. "Want is for children. If this were want, I would be rid of you by now. I would have forgotten you centuries ago," he says, a bitter loathing in his voice. "this is a need. And need is painful but patient. Do you hear me Adeline ? I need you. As you need me. I love you, as you love me.”
― V.E. Schwab

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray