Anna

“She made no answer, and he went on: “What’s the use? You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It’s beyond human enduring—that’s all.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Often already, during the fortnight that he had passed under her roof, when she enquired how he meant to spend his afternoon, he had answered paradoxically: "Oh, I think for a change I'll just save it instead of spending it--”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him to find they still imagined he was there.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence