⭑Rita

“I can give you nice. I can give you better than nice. I can give you everything.” He smiles at me, full of hope. “You don’t even have to admit to yourself that you love me, Bee. God knows I love you enough for the both of us. But I need you to stay. I need you to stick around. Not in Houston, if you don’t want to. I’ll follow you, if you ask me to.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Annie used to have a funny theory: we all have a Year Zero around which the calendars of our lives pivot. At some point you meet someone, and they become so important, so metamorphic, that ten, twenty, sixty-five years down the line you look back and realize that you could split your existence in two. Before they showed (BCE), and your Common Era. Your very own Gregorian calendar.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Science is reliable in its variability. Science does whatever the fuck it wants. God, I love science.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“This goes to show that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always the ones who do.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic