Romaissa

“I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“..time is always the price we pay for the unlived life.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Imagine having all your own thoughts and feelings tangled up with all the thoughts and feelings of a whole other person. It can be hard, sometimes, to sort out which is which.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains