Monice Tobi

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I’m like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness—until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. The thought hung in her mind, an enclosing awareness. And I say: “Look! I have no hands!” But the people all around me say: “What are hands?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace