Ruby Hawkins

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“When you've got your heart set on someone Brad Pitt could walk in and he wouldn't be enough--"
"Brad Pitt is really fucking old," I say.
"Um--Harry Styles?"
That almost makes me smile. "Yeah. Maybe. or Timothee Chalamet.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“Mirth,” Dr. Tuttle said. “I like it better than joy. Happiness isn’t a word I like to use in here. It’s very arresting, happiness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Living alone, I began to split apart from myself in a deeper and more grotesque way than ever before.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation