Kiki

“When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“When your companion dies, all the time you would have shared together dies as well. It was lonely for the departed, but far more so for the one left behind.”
― Natsuo Kirino, The Goddess Chronicle

“He was free but didn’t know it: trapped by the walls of his interpretations and stories, the perpetual trance of his self-constructed reality.”
― Matthew Maxwell, How To Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it

“I was to hurt a great many people by being unable to imagine that anyone could possibly be in love with an ugly boy like me. To be valued is one thing, the recognition of this assessment demanding, essentially, an act of the will. But love is another matter: it is scarcely worth observing what a mockery love makes of the will.”
― James Baldwin