Mia

“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you, might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe, I thought only of you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I didn’t feel with her, like I did with many other people, that while I was talking she was just preparing the next thing she wanted to say.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides