Alexandra

“My grandmother had a love which found in me so totally its complement, its goal, its constant lodestar, that the genius of great men, all the genius that might ever have existed from the beginning of the world, would have been less precious to my grandmother than a single one of my defects.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination - over other people”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it.”
― Tennessee Williams

“He looked at Sonia and felt how great was her love for him, and strange to say he felt it suddenly burdensome and painful to be so loved. Yes, it was a strange and awful sensation!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Collected Works: Crime and Punishment, Poor Folk, and More! (10 Works): Russian Classic Fiction