Shirley

“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

“We have to make every ending be a happy ending.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“If you’ve got the opportunity to love someone as much as they love you, then grab it with both hands and hold on to it for dear life.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Every single one wants to matter. We want our lives, and our stories and the choices we made or didn’t make to matter.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row