Alina

“Are you always up this early?' I asked him.
'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Submission but only to the truth.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“I guess the hardest thing is having so much love for you and it somehow not being returned. I develop crushes all the time, but that is just misdirected need for you. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned.”
― Timothy Conigrave, Holding the Man

“We want not only to be loved, but to be loved alone.”
― Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance