Olivia Cass

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“She loved him in every way it was possible to love a person. And for the most part, she knew he loved her back, in his own way - but she stared into the emptiness of the mountains, she wondered for the first time if that would be enough.”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke