Jessica

“Her mohair shawl I sold for drink, a present to her long ago, her own property, not mine; and we live in a cold room and she caught cold this winter and has begun coughing and spitting blood too. We have three little children and Katerina Ivanovna is at work from morning till night; she is scrubbing and cleaning and washing the children, for she’s been used to cleanliness from a child. But her chest is weak and she has a tendency to consumption and I feel it! Do you suppose I don’t feel it? And the more I drink the more I feel it. That’s why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment: Illustrated edition with notes

“So beautiful and infuriating and confusing. So ready to split me open with a single word, stitch me up again with a fleeting touch.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“Men like to be listened to, and they all think they have something worth saying.”
― Eloisa James, Not That Duke

“I grabbed his forearm. “Oh my God, Zac, that’s Jasmine and Ivan Lukov!” I whisper-hissed.”
― Mariana Zapata, Hands Down