„I was angry at her for not being what I wanted.“

— Peter Handke
„Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„I am amused at my relations with her: left so ardent in January – and now what? Also I like her presence and her beauty. Am I in love with her? But what is love? Her being 'in love' with me, excites and flatters; and interests. What is this 'love?“
— Virginia Woolf
„To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.“
— Paulo Coelho
„I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.“
— Sarah Waters