Anna

“He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”
― Richard Siken

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
― Richard Siken

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name