Maia Martucci

“How much do you love me?' Midori asked.

'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“[B]efore the Chinese figured out what gunpowder was for, they'd thought it could be used as an immortality elixir. How did they found out they were wrong? she asked me. The most logical way possible: it blew up in their faces, and ever since then they've used it for fireworks. And the truth is that when I see particularly beautiful fireworks, I really do feel immortal.”
― Mariana Enriquez, Our Share of Night

“There’s always going to be one more thing. Because that’s what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it’s infinite, it’s built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life