I might be romanticizing this, but... It’s like they’re soulmates who avoid being together out of fear they’ll ruin something perfect... and everyone else they date ends up paying the price.
a thing i love about reading classics is how vehemently conveyed all feeling & inner dialogue is. he was not just ‘shaken’, no, ‘thus it was his agony began as slight regret; sleepless nights and lovely days must intensify it into a frenzy that consumed him-
virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions: “to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones”