Ali

“( In war) you determine who will die anyway, and you move to those you can save. You want to stand over the dead and cry, but that helps no one. That’s a tourist’s sensibility.”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“She invaded his heart, first in pictures, and then later through the casual touch of her hand, the smell of her hair, and finally the weight of her pain in his arms.”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

“They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome