Alexandra Keir

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted."

Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed