Valeria

“I stayed there until the fire died. So it would not have to die alone.”
― Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die

“Happiness is corny. It is a word you do not find in Dorland's medical dictionary. When people are feeling tops, really at peace with themselves and others, they are not happy. In the medical sense, in that condition they are thought of not as happy, they are "euphoric," which, loosely translated, means slap-happy.”
― Paul de Kruif

“Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people’s happiness.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.”
― George Orwell, 7 Novel Dystopian Collection