‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍* sorrow

“It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Declan stood stiff as a middle-schooler hugged by a parent in front of school, but Jordan saw his nostrils flare and his eyes go terribly bright. He blinked, blinked, blinked and then he had his usual bland expression by the time the man stepped back. 'I'm proud of you,' he told Declan. Her dauntless Declan.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk