Ray Flores

“Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stayed around in little ways. In the memory of a musical. In the smell of their perfume. In the sound of the rain, and the itch for adventure, and the yearning for that liminal space between one airport terminal and the next. I hated her for leaving, and I loved her for staying as long as she could. And I would never wish this pain on anyone.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I began to realize that love wasn't dead, but it wasn't forever, either. It was something in between, a moment in time where two people existed at the exact same moment in the exact same place in the universe.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“You can’t count a hundred years on your own, of course. But there are two of us. If we each count fifty years, then together, we can live alongside one another for a hundred years. So please promise me that we’ll be together for the next one hundred years. And that we’ll celebrate our golden anniversary by having a dance, just like we are right now. Can you promise me this?”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop