Becca

“The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope:
I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.”
― william shakespeare

“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”
― Colette, The Vagabond

“But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.”
― Alan Paton, Too Late the Phalarope