Aileen

“The fantasy never got beyond that - I didn't let it - and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Is there anywhere you can think of he might go? Or somebody he might visit?” asked Tigris. Mrs. Plinth shook her head. “No. No. Your cousin’s his only friend.” How sad, thought Coriolanus. To have no friends.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“My mother has always told me to trust my instincts. But it’s hard to trust your instincts when they’re breaking your heart.”
― Paige Toon, Only Love Can Hurt Like This

“with that extraordinary gift, that woman’s gift, of making a world of her own wherever she happened to be. She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was, however; there she was.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway