Ana

“Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays, First Series

“They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicated meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List