Asteria

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Never is okay, you know,” he murmurs.

I draw back a bit. “What?”

“You said ‘not yet.’” He looks at me. “I’ll leave it up to you. But ‘never’ is okay, too, Jules. Never is always okay.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

“My passion amused her. She made fun of me, played with me, and tormented me. It is sweet to be the sole source, the arbitrary and irresponsible source of the greatest joys and profoundest miseries to someone else.”
― Ivan Turgenev, First Love