Julian

“I did not wake up and suddenly feel that I loved you. The answer I can give you is that it happened gradually. Slowly, and unnoticed, the way ocean turns rocks into sand.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“I worry sometimes that you've decided to convince yourself that you're somehow unattractive or unlovable, and that you've decided that certain experiences are off-limits for you. But they're not”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Calling anything by a false name only made it less true.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“As he watched her step lightly on the crackling red and brown heaps, he was overcome wiht the urge to give her things - his arm, his open hands; he would have emptied his pockets for her; he would have emptied his heart.”
― Ethan Canin, For Kings and Planets