Carla

“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself. She now found that, in spite of herself, she had always admitted a hope, while Edward remained single, that something would occur to prevent his marrying Lucy; that some resolution of his own, some mediation of friends, or some more eligible opportunity of establishment for the lady, would arise to assist the happiness of all. But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki

“It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji