Hanna

“you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“It makes me perpetually sorrowful in London to meet with people doing their duty. I find them everywhere. It is impossible to escape from them. A sense of duty is like some horrible disease. It destroys the tissues of the mind, as certain complaints destroy the tissues of the body.”
― Robert Smythe Hichens, The Green Carnation

“Only the insane take themselves seriously.”
― Max Beerbohm

“Is there," he asked with a bitter smile, "any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson?”
Nobody held up a hand.
"As I feared," said the Duke, knowing not that if a hand had been held up he would have taken it as a personal insult. No man really in love can forgive another for not sharing his ardour. His jealousy for himself when his beloved prefers another man is hardly a stronger passion than his jealousy for her when she is not preferred to all other women.”
― Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson