Lara

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“It's that hope for happiness that consumes a woman day after day, destroys her.”
― Alba de Céspedes, Forbidden Notebook

“In some sense, she was never really anywhere. She was happiest, Paul suspected, in transit, where the past was untouchable and the present negligible. And she would be, he guessed, for as long as she kept believing that the future would be better.”
― Ann Brashares, The Last Summer of You and Me

“I have said before metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being