Carissa

“Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again,”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Goodbye, darling, would I could leave you with something, some little thing...'
'You leave me with all I'll ever need,' she said softly. There was resignation in her voice. 'You leave me with some hours that other women must make up or read about in stories.”
― Anne Rice, Violin

“Freddie talked about the Devil all the time, almost as if he was her best friend, or an old lover.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea