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“If we’re very lucky, the universe will send us the people we need to survive.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World

“I think you will tire first, all the same. Some day you will look at him and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won't like his tone of color, or something. You will bitterly reproach him in your own heart, and seriously think he has behaved very badly to you. The next time he calls you will be perfectly cold and indifferent. It will be a great pity, for it will alter you. The worst of having a romance is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

“couldn’t locate the specific feeling I’d had the last time we talked. I thought for a few hours after I cried in the bathroom that I would call her and I would tell her I loved her. But I did not trust calling her. I was afraid that if I called her, she would talk and it would be too hard for me to love her after that.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“You are a wonderful creature. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray