Carissa

“River stretched. He wiggled his toes in the fading sun, and smiled. "Violet, Violet. You curl up next to me, nap, and leave. What is this, some sort of one-nap stand?" He smiled. "Screw the movie. Get back over here.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“It was better that he was gone, better that he was out of my life. I knew that, logically. What I felt, though, deep, deep down in the darkest dark of my heart, was that I didn't give a damn if River was evil. I still liked him. Maybe I even kind of loved him.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Freddie talked about the Devil all the time, almost as if he was her best friend, or an old lover.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea