[edendmiller]

“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”

“No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough: if others don’t love me I would rather die than live—I cannot bear to be solitary and hated,”

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

[edendmiller]

“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

[edendmiller]

“I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship her!”

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde