Leila ✨

“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“MIDNIGHTS

Don't remember many midnights.
Forgotten some of my best insights.
Can't recall some of the highest heights.
But I've memorized you.

Don't remember many daybreaks.
How many sunrises have come as I lay awake.
Don't dwell on my worst mistakes.
But I always think of you”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I’ll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn’t be it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six