Ilana

“The reason why it is easy to kill another person must be that one's imagination is too sluggish to conceive what his life means to him - the infinite possibilities of a succession of days which are furled in him, & have already been spent.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables