Valery Phalon

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Some knowledge beats in our hearts, while others are learned by the body and mind.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“Swallowing several choice insults, I took his hand.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess