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“He likes both types of conversations with Willem, but he appreciates the mundane ones more than he’d imagined he would. He had always felt bound to Willem by the big things—love; trust—but he likes being bound to him by the small things as well: bills and taxes and dental checkups.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“their silence was like a third creature in bed between them, huge and furred and ferocious when prodded.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He takes a breath. “Yes,” he says. “I’ve decided to stay.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“(You had never said this to me, not explicitly, but I know you will forgive me; I know you will. I know you would have wanted me to say this.)”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It was all just a mind game to distract himself from the fact that it was never enough. No one would ever let him have enough.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“There were still stars he needed to thank.”
― Piper Scott, Crash-Landed in Love

“I don’t know what love is supposed to feel like, either, but I hope it feels like this.”
― Willow Dixon, Best Served Cold

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

“It is raining and there is a dog lying
in the gutter and the gutter is filling
with water because the sewer is clogged.

If the dog were alive he would be drowning
but as it is, the water is simply stroking
his fur.”
― Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe