Bengisu

“About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks-for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm-and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Cutting is a fence you build upon your own body to keep people out but then you cry to be touched. But the fence is barbed. What then?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I am the sterile offspring of a race about which I know nothing, not even whether it has become extinct.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men