Mikah

“Can one still cherish a love that ends in grief?”
― Ava Reid, A Theory of Dreaming

“She both wanted and did not want to be held, to be touched, to be comforted. She was afraid of wanting becoming needing. And she was afraid, so terribly afraid, that if she needed him, it would be the moment that he slipped away.”
― Ava Reid, A Theory of Dreaming

“He is, however, afraid of dying a woman.”
― Andrew Joseph White, You Weren't Meant to Be Human

“Thinking of her was always like this: a rush of fondness, and then a bolt of fear. Love poems never seemed to include this thread of terror. Was he uniquely ill-disposed to this sentiment, too uneasy, too anxious for the act of loving without reserve? Or was the object of his affection uniquely vulnerable?”
― Ava Reid, A Theory of Dreaming