Ina Capulong

“Isn’t there something between stagnation and heading somewhere?” “Like?” “Like having a nice time. Enjoy the day and all that?”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“A graveyard is not normally a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy...”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“We knew from our reading of great literature that Love involved Suffering, and would happily have got in some practice at Suffering if there was an implicit, perhaps even logical, promise that Love might be on its way.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated—I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .”
― Alain de Botton, On Love