Robin

“Love, most likely. They don't know how dreary it is, how degrading.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature

“You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“It is dreadful that one cannot tear our the past by the roots. We cannot tear it out but we can hide the memory of it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“You must understand," said he, "it's not love. I've been in love, but it's not that. It's not my feeling, but a sort of force outside me has taken possession of me. I went away, you see, because I made up my mind that it could never be, you understand, as a happiness that does not come on earth; but I've struggled with myself, I see there's no living without it. And it must be settled.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina