Ally

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It seemed the fluid in my inner ears was not level and that the separation from Mary was the cause.”
― Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness

“She shook her head. - “I believe in the race,” she cried.
- “It represents the survival of the pushing.”
- “It has development.”
- “Decay fascinates me more.”
- “What of art?” she asked.
- “It is a malady.”
- “Love?”
- “An illusion.”
- “Religion?”
- “The fashionable substitute for belief.”
- “You are a sceptic.”
- “Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith.”
- “What are you?”
- “To define is to limit.”
- “Give me a clue.”
- “Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth.”
- “You bewilder me.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Our actions are the ground we walk on.”
― Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness