Paula

“For a moment, for a breath, for an eternity it seemed to him, time was doubled or had disappeared completely, for he no longer knew whether now was now and here was here, or whether now was not in fact then and here there”
― Suskind Patrick, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“At the time I didn't understand. But that's how therapy works. A patient delegates his unacceptable feelings to his therapist; and she holds everything he is afraid to feel, and she feels it for him. Then, ever so slowly, she feeds his feelings back to him.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“The assurance that the other person is right there in your orbit, always, waiting to be tugged back in. (…) they’d still breathe in sync”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“and she was beautiful like a city you always wanted to go to, like how you wait years and years for the right time, and then as soon as you get there, you have to taste everything and touch everything and learn every street by name.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop