Maria

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables