Ally

“Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I felt what we always feel when someone dies–the sad awareness, now futile, of how little it would have cost us to have been more loving. One forgets that one is a dead man conversing with dead men.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Fate would not have the reputation it has, if it simply did what it seemed it would do.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow