Alex

“People looked up from their speciality goods and smiled abstractly, supporting the idea of pleasure even if they weren't certain of the cause.”
― Zadie Smith

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“So happy to see you!/ Why are you crying then?/ Because I'm happy!”
― Damon Galgut, The Promise