Shan

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“You confuse what's important with what's impressive.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History