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“Do you not listen to me when I speak?” he answered shakily, his lip quirking up. “I love you. I have always loved you.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Maybe I’ll always be scared. Maybe the fear of getting hurt, of being left alone,
will never truly go away. But even if it’s my default setting, I can fight it. So many beautiful things lie on the other side of fear.
Like love.
Like this.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“Is it really too much to ask? For people like me to want a bit of that light for ourselves?”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I didn’t know you had such a praise kink.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun