Nadia

“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life