Iris

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“El miedo en la gente, hábilmente gestionado, puede darte el poder absoluto. La gente con miedo se deja conducir dócilmente.”
― Santiago Posteguillo, Africanus: El hijo del cónsul

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise