“Picturing fanfic characters having sex? Great. Fine. Sexy. But picturing myself having sex with anyone, guy, girl, whoever, didn’t interest me. No – it was more than that. It was an immediate fucking turn-off.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
“And I kept thinking about how sky is a singular noun, as if it's one thing. But the sky isn't one thing. The sky is everything. And last night, it was enough.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other—maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again, and I'll be stuck missing him, and isn't that so terrible.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“In the dream I don't tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.”
― Crush
― Crush
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