Allie

“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have a life other than the life I know he has with us, with me.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present. I don’t know if there is anything less helpful.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one’s own destiny by what one doesn’t notice or feel compassion for; that what you don’t know and don’t make the effort to understand will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“... the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.”
― Rachel Cusk, Transit