Dix Denni

“A day or two after my love pronouncement, now feral with vulnerability, I sent you the passage from Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes in which Barthes describes how the subject who utters the phrase “I love you” is like “the Argonaut renewing his ship during its voyage without changing its name.” Just as the Argo’s parts may be replaced over time but the boat is still called the Argo, whenever the lover utters the phrase “I love you,” its meaning must be renewed by each use, as “the very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“If you aren’t affected
somehow, even in the slightest bit, you aren’t
reading the right book.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“Well, you know what they say—tradition is just peer pressure from the dead. And I don’t know about you, but I’m more interested in living just now.”
― Jessi Elliott, A Light in the Dusk

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today.”
― David Nicholls