Mehm

“It can't be helped, Vasya. A son is like a lopped-off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists; but you and I are like mushrooms growing in a hollow tree. Here we sit side by side without budging. But I shall stay with you for ever and unalterably, just as you will stay with me.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“If you walk around acting like you don’t care for long enough, people will start to believe you. If you really don’t care, then people who do care will leave your life and people who don’t care will come into it. And if that happens, you will find yourself in a very terrible place.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Lost Cat

“Immortality required the sacrifice of everything mortal”
― Brandon W. Teigland, Neuromachina

“There was paradise in my soul, I would have made it blossom around you!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit