Jason

“With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears of emotion in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, “You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You’re acting now, in spite of your ‘holy’ wrath.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories & Autobiographical Writings

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White