Grace A.

“And he did not want to be loved as a second choice, as a surrender. He had spent his whole life not being loved at all, and he had thought being loved enough would satisfy him. It would not. He did not want to be loved enough. He wanted to be loved overwhelmingly. (...) He had never been chosen, so he had never had a chance to know this about himself before now: he wanted to be chosen first.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“When you cared too much about one person, other people seemed to matter less, and sometimes you treated them as if they did not matter at all.”
― Sara Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein