Celine

“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Love is like the lion's tooth.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès