You are my favorite person Dumbass
And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current’s too overpowering; I don’t have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I’ve never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there’s no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I’ll be burned up, gone forever.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆.
“Please do smack me if this is out of line, but you are the most exquisite woman I have ever seen in my life, and I would like to procure for you the most lavish drink in this establishment if you will let me.”
“You’re a charmer,” June says, smiling indulgently.
“And you are a goddess.”
—Red, white and royal blue
Love can't cure a mental illness.
— Heartstopper, Alice Oseman
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
He was a man of black and white.
And she was colour. All the colour he had.
A man called Ove, Fredrick Backman
His soul rushed out. Carrying the memory that was important. The only memory that was important.
Vedavati.
— War of Lanka, Amish
— Anne Sexton, Elegy in the Classroom