Leslie

“Always, there are people asking him if he misses what it had never occurred to him to want, never occurred to him he might have:”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I inhale, trying not to smile. “Maybe I can try to accept your apology.”
“Maybe,” he repeats like I’m full of shit and I’ve already scribbled hearts about M + F in my diary. Just so you know, I don’t have a diary. And if I did…Farrow would be all over it.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“You said you wanted an in-your-face, overjoyed kind of love that knocks you backwards.” He takes a beat. “But our love is that and better. Our love is headstrong. It never yields, never dies. And when it knocks you backwards, it pulls you upright again.”
― Krista Ritchie, Alphas Like Us

“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