Hulan

“Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?"
"No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the morning she would not hear him take his bath in the Suchow tub. He was alive and now he was dead.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?”
― W Somerset Maugham