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“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“A person never looks more beautiful than when they are doing something they love. When, for just a second, I catch a woman off guard – passionately expressing herself, laughing, dancing, forgetting how she looks – it is a glow like no other, an inside-out radiance, a beauty that shines from within.”
― Florence Given, Women Living Deliciously

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Warum spricht man das, was man auf dem Herzen hat, nicht geradezu und ohne Weiteres aus, wenn man doch weiss, dass man es nicht in den Wind spricht?”
― Fjodor Dostojewski