Hazel

“Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“If a violin string could ache, I would be that string.”
― Vladimir Nobokov

“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend