Anna

“If people's apologies aren't the real thing, you might as well think of their forgiveness as not being the real thing either.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“I think you will tire first, all the same. Some day you will look at him and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won't like his tone of color, or something. You will bitterly reproach him in your own heart, and seriously think he has behaved very badly to you. The next time he calls you will be perfectly cold and indifferent. It will be a great pity, for it will alter you. The worst of having a romance is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

“What part of what you see here is carefree? If only you could understand the sadness of the ones who grow the delicate flowers of buffoonery, protecting them from but the slightest gust of wind and always on the verge of despair!”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

“All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey