Iris

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Paradise was not far away when I died”
― Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark