Natasha

“Too excited to be genuinely happy”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners