Lauren ✿

“When one loves, an injury is soon forgotten.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“You still would not find my love to be a burden in any way. You would only feel, you would only sense at every moment that next to you beats a grateful, grateful heart, an ardent heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M. L. Rio, If We Were Villains: A Novel

“To be astonished at everything, of course, is silly, while to be astonished at nothing is much more handsome, and for some reason is recognized as good form. But surely it's not like that in reality. In my opinion, it's much sillier to be astonished at nothing than to be astonished at everything. And what's more: to be astonished at nothing. is almost the same thing as to respect nothing. And a silly man is not capable of showing respect.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bobok