anaïs

“I wondered if this is was what it felt like to love someone. I already knew what it meant to be in love with someone. I’d felt it, and I’d acted it. But to love someone. To care for them. To throw your lot in with theirs and think, ‘Whatever happens, it’s you and me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“And I don’t know if I really have something special, or if her telling me I got something special has brain-washed me into believing it, but I do know I’m happier in the kitchen then anywhere else in the world.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“It had returned to her sanctified in her eyes; made precious as material things sometimes are by being forever identified with a significant moment of one’s existence.”
― Kate Chopin, The Locket

“But the fear you have for someone else’s life always eclipses the fear you have for your own.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High