Marika

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The universe is always stranger than you think.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“you leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.”
― Helene Hanff

“These characters might not be interesting to anyone else but they're absolutely fascinating to us. They are us. Meaner, smarter, sexier versions of ourselves. It's fun to be with them because they're wrestling with the same issue that has its hooks into us. They're our soul mates, our lovers, our best friends. Even the villains. Especially the villains.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art