Dan

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“She groped for words. I supplied them mentally ('He broke my heart. You merely broke my life').”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
― John Milton

“One last word," I said in my horrible English, "are you quite, quite sure that--well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow , but--well--some day, any day, you will not come live with me? I will create a new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope."

"No," she said smiling, "no."
"It would have made all the difference," said Humbert Humbert.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita