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“His smile—crooked and cynical and too familiar with the world—and at the same time full of hope.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown

“Remember that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“He wanted Jo for his heroine, and called upon his memory to supply him with tender recollections and romantic visions of his love. But memory turned traitor, and as if possessed by the perverse spirit of the girl, would only recall Jo's oddities, faults, and freaks, would only show her in the most unsentimental aspects – beating mats
with her head tied up in a bandana, barricading herself with the sofa pillow, or throwing cold water over his passion a la Gummidge – and an irresistable laugh spoiled the pensive picture he was endeavoring to paint. Jo wouldn't be put into the opera at any price, and he had to give her up with a 'Bless that girl, what a torment she is!' (...)”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women