Earnest

“It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things."
"Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry.
"I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“How much did you care about anything that went on in my head until it got out?”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

“I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent