Zainab

“Oliver, I don’t understand,” he said. “Why?”
“You know why.” I was done pretending otherwise.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He drowned himself on the last day of December, and though the local authorities dragged the freezing water for days and miles, his body was never found.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Extremely tragic is a good description of you.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Beautiful feelings make bad literature. In which case, this precious state of prose is proof that I'm no devil after all. Ah, blessed be the man who coined this phrase! It is a treasure of the language. An author can get away with using it but once in his career. Sad to say. The first time, it's endearing. If you insist on using it a second or a third time, though, dear reader, hiding behind it like a shield, you can expect nothing but misery.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery