stranger

“Oh God, art is forever,
And our life is brief.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“They sat side by side, both mournful and dejected, as though they had been cast up by the tempest alone on some deserted shore. He looked at Sonia and felt how great was her love for him, and strange to say he felt it suddenly burdensome and painful to be so loved.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I have come to tell you that though you will be unhappy, you must believe that your son loves you now more than himself, and that all you thought about me, that I was cruel and didn’t care about you, was all a mistake. I shall never cease to love you…”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Do you believe in God? I don't think I ever asked you that one. Well I do now.
God’s a house. Which is not to say that our house is God’s house or even a house of God. What I mean to say is that our house i̲s̲ God.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves