Paula B

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much. How much, you’ll never believe or know. At every moment of the day. It is painful but also rather pleasant, if you know what I mean. I mean, that it is good to have so keen and persistent a feeling about somebody. It is a sign of vitality.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

“So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me — a long, long road without a goal...”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“The refusal to become (or to remain) heterosexual always meant to refuse to become a man or a woman, consciously or not.”
― Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind: And Other Essays