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“I'm dead, but I'm fine”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

“Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember the dialect on my mother’s lips when she lost that gentle cadence and yelled at us, poisoned by her unhappiness: I can’t take you anymore, I can’t take any more.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

“I poured my soul into the dust by loving a man who was soon to die, as if he would live forever.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Books I-X

“But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in Him but in myself and His other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”
― Aurelius Augustinus, Confessions