Kate

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“Thus play I in one person many people,
And none contented: sometimes am I king;
Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,
And so I am: then crushing penury
Persuades me I was better when a king;
Then am I king'd again: and by and by
Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke,
And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be,
Nor I nor any man that but man is
With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased
With being nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet