Michelle

“But you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.”
― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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