Lina

“Sometimes I don't understand it myself. Like, what the heck am I, anyway? Really, what am I? "
I shake my head. "Well, I don't know what I am, either. "
"A classic identity crisis.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Is there a worse hell than the torment a man suffers when he knows deep down in his conscience that he has done something wrong, awfully wrong? Ask that man. He will tell you what hell is”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“What has compelled me is this thing between us, whatever it is, and its overwhelming impact upon me is alluding my control. It has become more serious than I can handle. I first loved your imagination and your stories, and then I realized I love the person behind the stories.
Now I don't know what to do with you.
As I said, I need to send this letter immediately. If not, I will have to tear it into a dozen of bits. I will act as if there is nothing new in my life, nothing unusual.
Yes, I could do what I always do and pretend that everything is normal.
I could pretend if it weren't for this sweet ache in my heart...

With love,
Ella”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love