Yan Couto

“But, if you want to feel better, I’d like you to clarify what you would like people to do to make life more wonderful for you.”
― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

“A large part of our difficulties with jealousy comes from our attempts to avoid feeling a scary or painful emotion.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

“They pulled out their pocket computer, as was their habit first thing, dimly aware of the hope that always spurred them to do so—that there might be something good there, something exciting or nourishing, something that would replace the weariness.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“In the end, she decided, with some amount of disappointment, that none of them were involved romantically.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow