"Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface."
– Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes

"It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone so much that you cared about nothing else and other things seemed inexistent."
– Ernest Hemingway, “The Garden of Eden”

"… remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."
– Sylvia Plath, from her journal, #20