Rosie

“Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em. ”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“The kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched - he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray