Elis Shenkov

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Count Vronsky: I love you!
Anna Karenina: Why?
Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns