Julia

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I thought you were makin’ small talk about the weather.”
“When have I ever made small talk with you?”
“When we first met.”
“No, I made small talk with Bessie, your shotgun, until you removed her double barrels from my kisser.”
Violet and a typical conversation with Harvey”
― Ann Charles, An Ex to Grind in Deadwood

“I never thought of it like that. I always thought of you as a part of me, like my own eyes or my own hands. You don't go around thinking 'I love my eyes, I love my hands', do you? But think what it would be like to live without your eyes or your hands. To be mad, or to be blind. I can't talk about it. It's how I feel.”
― Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Perilous Gard

“Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem. Difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias,” which is Latin for

“It is difficult suddenly to put aside a long-standing love; it is difficult, but somehow you must do it.”
― Catullus, Gaius Valerius