Mariana

“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
― Arthur Machen

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides