Ashley Karnis

“He just wanted more life. He didn't know what he would do with it, but he wanted it- and not just his own but everyone's. More and more and more, until he had stuffed himself with it.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

“The problem, though, with trying to be the ideal anything is that eventually the definition changes, and you realize that what you'd been pursuing all along was not a single truth but a set of expectations determined by context. You leave that context, and you leave behind those expectations, too, and then you're nothing once again.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Some people can't see softness without wanting to hurt it”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji