Alex

“He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which has lain quiet in the lover for a long time hitherto. And somehow every lover knows this. He feels in his soul that his love is a solitary thing. He comes to know a new strange loneliness and it is this knowledge which makes him suffer.”
― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

“You're not sentimental?' 'No, I'm romantic-- a sentimental person thinks things will last-- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Sentiment is emotional.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“One event sometimes had infinite ramifications and could change the whole settings of a person's life.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary