Esmeralda

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

“Tired of myself longing for what I have not”
― Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
― Maya Angelou