Elizabeth

“...he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could loved in no other way.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Yes, nature is given to mockery! Why does she," he suddenly continued ardently, "why does she create the best beings only so as to mock them afterwards? Didn't she make it so that the single being on earth who had been acknowledged as perfect... didn't she make it so that, having shown him to people, she destines him to say things that have caused so much blood to be shed, that if it had been shed all at once, people would probably have drowned in it! Oh, it's good that I'm dying!”
― Feodor Dostoievski, The Idiot

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov