Kimberly

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina