R.

“I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.”
― Celine

“I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away .”
― Celine

“It is real in such an intense way that it feels unreal, too.”
― David Levithan, Another Day

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time