Natalia

“That's the thing. Part of everything will always be forgettable. No matter how good or remarkable it is. It literally has to be. To be.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“She entered his life without knocking, as one might step into the wrong room because of its vague resemblance to one’s own. She stayed there forgetting the way out and quietly getting used to the strange creatures she found there”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“There was no dependency. Dependency equates to seriousness.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight