Ruska

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“He called me beautiful, he wanted to say. Surely he couldn’t be so cruel as to say a thing like that and not mean it?”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“When I had almost reached him he turned and smiled at me. Then, with a strangely gauche and still hesitant movement, he shook my trembling hand. "Hello, Hans", he said, and suddenly I realised to my joy and relief and amazement that he was as shy and as much in need of a friend as I.”
― Fred Uhlman, Reunion