Paula

“God, I've missed him. I somehow still do, even though he's standing right in front of me.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“It's nothing like the way they describe it in the movies, like all the stars aligning and fireworks exploding across an ink-black sky. It feels both quieter and bigger than that, as simple as coming home and as dizzying and all-encompassing as the wind rushing in around us. It feels like a thousand banished and buried moments have been building up to this - to us alone and untethered and weak with wanting - and maybe they have.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“Hunger neglects pride the way fire neglects the cries of what it burns.”
― Ocean Vuong, Burnings

“Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy