Emily Kibler

“You can just be there. To listen. To talk. To cheer him up if he's having a bad day. And on bad days you can ask what you could do to make things easier. Stand by his side, even when things are hard. But also knowing that sometimes people need more support than just one person can give. That's love, darling.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“My whole life, you've tried to bully me into hating myself, just because you hate yourself. Well, it's not working! I like who I am. I like my life! So why don't you fuck off and focus on your own problems!”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“It's like I dreamed of kissing him in black-and-white, and now I'm kissing him in colour.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“In the end, that was the problem with romance. It was so easy to romanticize romance because it was everywhere. It was in music and on TV and in filtered Instagram photos. It was in the air, crisp and alive with fresh possibility. It was in falling leaves, crumbling wooden doorways, scuffed cobblestones, and fields of dandelions. It was in the touch of hands, scrawled letters, crumpled sheets, and the golden hour. A soft yawn, early morning laughter, shoes lined up together by the door. Eyes across a dance floor. I could see it all, all the time, all around, but when I got closer, I found that nothing was there. A mirage.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless