Annie

“He felt that she had at last arrived at an understanding with herself: had made a pact with her rebellious impulses, and achieved a uniform system of self-government, under which all vagrant tendencies were either held captive or forced into the service of the state.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth & The Age of Innocence

“She felt the nameless fear which precede all emotions, joyous or sorrowful, inevitable as a hum of thunder precedes a storm”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, TENDER IS THE NIGHT With an introduction by Charles Scriner III and illustrations by Fred Meyer.

“the name of friend [amica] instead of wife would be dearer to her and more honourable for me--only love freely given should keep me for her, not the constriction of a marriage tie, and if we had to be parted for a time, we should find the joy of being together all the sweeter the rarer our meetings were.”
― Pierre Abélard, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

“It’s strange how many people suffer from it. I don’t mean fear of closed spaces and fears of heights, but fear of death and what’s worse, fear of life”
― W Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge