Sheba Parkins

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”
― Jane Austen

“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black