Snowy

“Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

“The steady Shen Jue, the calm Shen Jue, and the strategizing Shen Jue had all disappeared without a trace. He was Xie Jinglan, and he was going to find the bookboy he waited for and searched for ten years, Xiahou Lian.”
― 杨溯, 督主有病 [Du Zhu You Bing]

“You've already taken the revenge you needed to take, and you've already returned the debts you needed to return, so there's only one thing life... forgiving yourself.”
― 杨溯, 督主有病 [Du Zhu You Bing]

“When he was gone, would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus? I tried to picture myself running up and down the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul.

I could not see it. That knowledge brought its own sort of pain.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe