Melissa

“My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don’t really begin living until June, until I’m at that beach, in that house.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Narcissus, gazing at his image in the pool, wept. A friend passing by saw him and asked, “Narcissus, why do you weep?” “Because my face has changed,” Narcissus said. “Do you cry because you grow older?” “No. I see that I am no longer innocent. I have been gazing at myself long and long, and so doing have worn out my innocence.”
― Peter Straub, Ghost Story

“I made my own house be my gallows.”
― Dante Alighieri, Dante's Inferno