Kasia

“Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Someday, gods willing, he’d be the king, yet he needed someone with whom he could still be Alexandros.”
― Jeanne Reames, Becoming

“I wouldn’t know where pure emotion, a crush as you say, stops and sex begins. Does anyone know? When does a feeling become a sin? When the body performs what is already formed in the mind? Tell me that, Red?”
― Han Suyin, Winter Love

“She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people’s rooms, always I was the one to ask for love.”
― Han Suyin, Winter Love