Wiktoria

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And he cries and cries, cries for everything he has been, for everything he might have been, for every old hurt, for every old happiness, cries for the shame and joy of finally getting to be a child, with all of a child's whims and wants and insecurities, for the privilege of behaving badly and being forgiven, for the luxury of tenderness, of fondness, of being served a meal and being made to eat it, for the ability, at last, at last, of believing a parent's reassurances, of believing that to someone he is special despite all his mistakes and hatefulness, because of all his mistakes and hatefulness.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life