Bella C

“Why do you pause?” Juliette mimicked bitterly. Softly, she set him down, brushing his mussed hair out of his face. “Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“It was difficult to write about someone I felt I knew so well. The words were unwieldy, engorged with pretension. I wanted to uncover something special about her that only I could reveal. That she was so much more than a housewife, than a mother. That she was her own spectacular individual. Perhaps I was still sanctimoniously belittling the two roles she was ultimately most proud of, unable to accept that the same degree of fulfillment may await those who wish to nurture and love as those who seek to earn and create. Her art was the love that beat on in her loved ones, a contribution to the world that could be just as monumental as a song or a book. There could not be one without the other. Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Because I love you!” Benedikt shouted. At once, it was like a dam in
his heart had broken, smashing past every barricade he had built up. “I love
you, Mars. And if you are gunned down because you want to fight a war
that doesn’t belong to you, I will never forgive this city. I will tear it to
pieces, and you will be to blame!”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“In this life and the next, for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends