Lesli Gouchie

“Julian expected to be full of love and lust, and consequently usually was. He had an inconvenient habit of watching himself from a distance, and wondering whether the love and lust were strained and faked. He was afraid of being isolated and solitary, which he feared was his fate. He was certainly not himself an object of desire to other boys, as far as he knew—and he was knowing.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book

“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
― R.D. Ronald

“You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?'
'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.'
He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“We never know how we love til we try to unlove!”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing