Kai

“I thought I loved him, too, and was touched at my own tenderness for him. Yet I lived without him and exchanged his love for another’s, and did not complain of the change as long as the other love satisfied me.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“That life was painful before, lately it has been dreadful. What will it be now? And he knows it all; knows that I cannot repent of breathing, of loving, knows that nothing but lies and deception can come of this arrangement, but he wants to continue to torture me.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don’t waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had this courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray