Iris

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984