Stacey

“If falling in love was the only way to learn anything, and if falling in love was in some way about sex, could the fact that I hadn't "had" sex explain why I seemed to myself not to have really learned anything - why I seemed not to have had really learned anything about, for example, Hungary - why everything I did learn felt somehow incomplete and beside the point?”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

“It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

“All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans