Iara

“Your friendly smile of acceptance - from the safe position of heterosexuality,' " Jane reads aloud, " 'isn't enough. As long as you cherish that secret belief that you are a little bit better because you sleep with the opposite sex, you are still asleep in your cradle... and we will be the nightmare that awakens you.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Thus we see that the meaning (the Absent, God, the Absolute, the High Point) has no limit. When man speaks about God, he is not speaking about his essence, but only about the way God manifests himself to him, that is, the image in which he appears. This image comes from man rather than from God. He does not appear in the same image to everyone but rather in a different image to every human being to whom he reveals himself. His manifestations are different, both in clarity and obscurity, according to the difference in the persons. Mankind does not know the essence of God, but knows only an image of him and an interpretation on which he constructs this image.”
― Adonis

“Knowledge is not seeing the visible; knowledge is seeing what lies behind it: the invisible. It is knowing the internal nature of objects.”
― Adonis

“There was this girl. I met her on a train. The first time I saw her, she was covered in coffee and smelled like pancakes, and she was beautiful like a city you always wanted to go to, like how you wait years and years for the right time, and then as soon as you get there, you have to taste everything and touch everything and know every street by name. I felt like I knew her. She reminded me who I was. She had soft lips and green eyes and a body that wouldn’t quit. Hair like you wouldn’t believe. Stubborn, sharp as a knife. And I never, ever wanted a person to save me until she did.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop