liana

“And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised to us, wrongly … wrongly, an immortality. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Oh, good," she said when she woke to the sight of him, and that's what he thinks while he kisses her.
Oh, good. It's you.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“He thinks of all the other versions of himself making love to all the other versions of her and resolves to pluck them out of their alternate realities, out of their alternate spaces and times, to place them in this one.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Because I know he'll sit for me. Because I know he won't mock me, won't suffocate me, won't kill this this fragile little thing I've found, this fledgling breath I've taken. Because he will know what it means, because he asked me to, because he asked. Because he's the thing I can't unsee. Because I don't know if I can get him right without looking, without proof, but also because I need to know, because I've already tried. Because either this is how everything changes, or this is how it ends.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether