Yas

“But surely every man is his own god: Fortune refuses her aid to those who merely pray, and take no action.”
― Ovid, The Fall of Icarus

“This moment is now a bookmark in my life. There is a before and an after. I’ll never get to go back to the before. But I don’t want to live in the after. Not without Jules.”
― Lizzy Mason, Remind Me to Hate You Later

“Nobody is right for anyone. Actually, what makes somebody right is commitment. Then when you’re committed to each other and you have true dialogue, that means you allow the other to impact upon you and they allow you to impact on them. You’re not rigid and unchanging; you are moved by each other. It’s like two stones rubbing together until suddenly they fit. You have your initial years of sexual attraction and then something deeper can hook in. Rather than having a relationship with your fantasy of that person you begin to have a real relationship with them; you’ve impacted each other enough to actually know each other. And to know someone is to love them.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“Being an adult meant watching many possible versions of yourself whittle into just one.”
― Leslie Jamison, Splinters