"Love is a dead idea to them. They don’t come to one and love one, they come to an idea, and they say ‘You are my idea,’ so they embrace themselves."
— D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
Summer Reading: The Tom Ripley series by Patricia Highsmith
"But in the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life."
— E.M. Forster
"I felt that my dreams and thoughts and prayers were live things, living there in the dark with me, hovering about my bed, and standing over me. And every thought was his thought, and every feeling his feeling. I did not know yet that this was love; I thought that things might go on so for ever, and that this feeling involved no consequences."
— Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
Julia Stephen and Stella Duckworth. Virginia Woolf’s mother and half sister.
