Corisa

“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted."

Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”
― Tana French, Faithful Place

“She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.”
― Miriam Toews