Farzeen Ather

“Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness. I’m glad you watch everything so carefully, Klara.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“Listen to me," Clytemnestra says. "Gods do not care about us. They have other concerns. That is why you should never live in the shadow of their anger. It is men you must fear. It is men who will be angry with you if you rise too high, if you are loved too much. The stronger you are, the more they will try to take you down.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

“I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered and unseen. She deserved so much more.”
― Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia

“I’m saying that it is hard to find a man who is really strong. Strong enough not to desire to be stronger than you.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra