Isabel

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“And if you missed a day, there was always the next,
and if you missed a year, it didn't matter,
the hills weren't going anywhere,
the thyme and rosemary kept coming back,
the sun kept rising, the bushes kept bearing fruit–”
― Louise Glück, Poems, 1962-2012

“I’ll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You said I could have anything I wanted, but I
just couldn’t say it out loud.”
― Richard Siken, Crush