Eli Watson

“People don’t change to suit their god; they change their god to suit them.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“Is it possible even to think of someone in the past? As long as we loved each other, we never allowed the meanest of our instants, the smallest grief, to be detached and forgotten, left behind. Sounds, smells, nuances of light, even the thoughts we never told each other; we carried them all away and they remained alive: even now they have the power to give us joy and pain. Not a memory: an implacable, torrid love, without shadow, without escape, without shelter. Three years rolled into one. That is why we parted: we did not have enough strength to bear this burden.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea