Hannah

“She says you’re lovely, but she doesn’t settle for second place.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“As far as I know, there are two ways to get over someone: Surrender to the anger that’s already there, or invent something to get angry about. Sometimes it was always wrong, and the only thing to do is stop believing it was ever good to love them. But sometimes they were good to you. Sometimes you go looking for kindling and find that green leaves won’t burn, that the garden was watered too well. Sometimes you have to rearrange the truth into something you won’t miss.

And sometimes, when enough time goes by, it gets hard to remember which one you did.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Kim Iseul was only thirty-three years old when she died. In just six years, Yoonhae will be the same age, and after that, he’ll always be older than she ever got to be.”
― Sam Kyung Yoo, Small Gods of Calamity

“Here, now, under a shower of sparks, he looks like just the person who would have missed me, the one who wouldn’t have left.

The truth is, I never stopped loving that person. I only stopped believing he existed.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing