Marta Martinsone

“She used to think love was like a house. Once it was built, a person got to live in it forever. But now she wondered if love was more like a war with new foes constantly appearing and battles creeping up. Winning at love was less about succeeding in a battle and more about continuing to fight, to choose the person you loved as the one you were willing to die for, over and over.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“But desire, Ethan, is where it all begins. If you don't want more, you don't get more.”
― Dolly Parton, Run, Rose, Run

“Redzi, Džūd, dzīvē ar jaukiem cilvēkiem reizēm noteik kaut kas labs. Neuztraucies, tā nenotiek tik bieži, cik vajadzētu. Tomēr tajās retajās reizēs jaukajiem cilvēkiem vienkārši jāpasaka "paldies" un jādzīco tālāk, un varbūt jāpieļauj iespēja, ka labdarim arī ir prieks, un viņš negrib uzklausīt iemeslus, kāpēc labvēlības pieņēmējs neuzskata, ka ir tās cienīgs un to pelnījis.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“You can't ask someone to help you without letting them know you're different than advertised, that you've been thinking and feeling strange things this whole time. That you're uglier, weaker, more annoying, more basic, less interesting than promised. Without letting on that your feelings are easily hurt, and that you are boring, just like everyone else. Once you expose yourself as insecure it's easy to feel resentment if you're not immediately put back at ease.

If there's even a flicker, a tiny recognition of your bad qualities, the resentment kicks in, the deal is broken, and suddenly you're both angry strangers, spending hours alone in a room together and completely unsure why.”
― Halle Butler, The New Me