Matthew Bapty

“Dormant true love, there for everybody, just waiting to be found, erupting when the thread of existence collides with chance and the eyes of two lovers meet. Boom. From what I’ve seen of it, true love is hard. Real romance has death in it. It has midnight shakes and flecks of shit across a bedsheet. True love like this dies if it has to wait for fate. True love like this asks lovers to cast aside what is meant to be and work with what is.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways.”
― Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Maybe we'd all be much more effective communicators if we all shut up more.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe