Sophie

“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
― mary renault, Fire from Heaven

“Macht man das nicht ständig? Außer Acht lassen, dass die Menschen, die in unser Leben treten, bereits ihre Geschichten, Wunden und Geheimnisse besitzen, die rein gar nichts mit uns zu tun haben?”
― Astrid Rosenfeld