Michael

“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita