Steven

“I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good.

-- from Quantum of Solace”
― Ian Fleming, For Your Eyes Only

“Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre,
mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao.

( Will shall be the sterner, heart the bolder, spirit the greater as
our strength lessens. )”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities