Asli

“Do you think we looked like that to them?” “What, sexy? I probably did.” “No, like...in love?” Ilya seemed to consider the question before answering. “We are very good at pretending to not be in love. Maybe we are bad at showing it when we are allowed.”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I feel like I don’t know myself anymore. I want you here, like this, bound to me the way you have been. But I also want to run away to the mountains with you and never come back. I want to be in control, because it’s the only way I feel safe, but I’m tired of wanting it. I want to tell you I’m ready to try something different, but it terrifies me more than I can say. I’m afraid it’ll all go wrong. I’ve been doing this for so long, I have no idea how to be anything other than what I am. But right now, what I am doesn’t fit.

He shook his head, frustrated at his inability to capture it all.

I can’t explain it. It doesn’t make any sense, even to me. I feel like I’ve been living somebody else’s life, and I don’t know what my own life is supposed to be.”
― Marie Sexton, Terms of Service

“I want you to put 'He didn't want to ride the damn horse' on my tombstone.”
― Abigail Roux, Stars & Stripes