C.

“Me dieron ganas de quedarme un rato más ahí, viéndola mientras bordaba. De eso dan ganas a veces, de ver cómo es la gente que una ama cuando está a solas. No por espiarla, por conocerla mejor.”
― Jazmina Barrera, Punto de cruz

“It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides