Alyce

“Without being able to decipher a word of the placard at the Gate, he had learnt his lesson—in Regent’s Park dogs must be led on chains.”
― Virginia Woolf, Flush

“I am a Herondale. We love but once."
"That is only a story."
"Haven't you heard?" James said bitterly. "All the stories are true.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I just want to hear that single phrase. It’s just one phrase I want to hear. Why can’t anyone say it to me? He knew he was being selfish but he just couldn’t live without the desire to hear that phrase. He finally realised that was what he had desired for all this time as if the falling snow had opened a door sealed deep within his heart. He wanted to hear the very words that girl had said to him that day. “I’m sure you will be all right, Takaki-kun.”
― Makato Shinkai

“But how different! Hers was the pale worn face of an invalid, cut off from air, light, freedom. His was the warm ruddy face of a young animal; instinct with health and energy. Broken asunder, yet made in the same mould, could it be that each completed what was dormant in the other? She might have been—all that; and he—But no. Between them lay the widest gulf that can separate one being from another. She spoke. He was dumb. She was woman; he was dog. Thus closely united, thus immensely divided, they gazed at each other. Then with one bound Flush sprang on to the sofa and laid himself where he was to lie for ever after—on the rug at Miss Barrett’s feet.”
― Virginia Woolf, Flush