Virginiedd

“One last word," I said in my horrible English, "are you quite, quite sure that--well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow , but--well--some day, any day, you will not come live with me? I will create a new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope."

"No," she said smiling, "no."
"It would have made all the difference," said Humbert Humbert.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“I said I have committed incest father I said”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?”
― Irvin D. Yalom