Anya

“I'm just thinking, you might be the modern version of a war bride."
"The what?"
"You know, like when we were kids. Guy's shipping out, gets all panicked, pulls the trigger so to speak. This is the same thing, in reverse. Girl's got a job, heading for parts unknown, guy...You know."
"Pulls the trigger. So to speak.”
― Malcolm Brooks, Painted Horses

“So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?"

"Yes, naturally.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Was that the point of suffering: to understand, in some way, what you still had? To clarify it, to rip the stars from the sky and hold them in the hand like diamonds‒to darken all the rest but the most glittering, glad memories? Was that the way to live a sunny life?”
― Amber Sparks, The Unfinished World and Other Stories

“Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?”
― Sara Zarr, Roomies