Alexis

“So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”

“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
― Bob Marley