Ash

“Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can truly understand us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other---maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again, and I'll be stuck missing him, and isn't that so terrible.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“...I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History