Leslie

“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

“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

“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

“To all who walk the dark path, and to those who walk in the sunshine but hold out a hand in the darkness to travel beside us: Brighter days are coming. Clearer sight will arrive. And you will arrive too. No, it might not be forever. The bright moments might be for a few days at a time, but hold on for those days. Those days are worth the dark.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things