Evalangui

“But, in the end, there was the only thing that meant I could live with myself after what had happened with Devlin: you had to trust the other person to tell you what they wanted. You had to give them the right to fuck up. Without that, they might be happier with the situation, but you weren’t treating them like a person. People asked for things when they weren’t sure, or even when they didn’t want them, they made sacrifices and they compromised. It was a choice, and they had to have the freedom to make it. Even if the only way they could have it was because you gave them that freedom. Because you were willing to believe they were capable of deciding.”
― N.J. Lysk, Alphas Alone

“I was never bored except in the company of others.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“Lyall wanted Tristan’s kisses and his body and to have him close enough his scent would permeate rooms and make him smile when he walked into them. But he didn’t want it more than he wanted Tristan’s words, rushed in a voice messages and often too formal in emails, and in perfectly composed lectures full of masterful analogies. And not just for him, but for other people who needed to hear they didn’t have to be trapped by the vicissitudes of chance, that their bodies could be coaxed into allowing them enough freedom to find happiness—for without freedom there was no happiness possible.
The distance would be harder, but it did not mean more than their closeness.”
― N.J. Lysk, Runt of the litter