Ali

“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

“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

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“His anguish had grown skeletal in its solitude. He wished it didn’t have to be so, that one could ingest pain and keep it from others, but instead it seemed one could only lessen it by inflicting little cuts and bruises of it on another.”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters