Christina

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses