Gary

“Do you need to know a person to feel sympathy for them? You’re kind, Arlo, and you feel things deeply. That’s not something to be embarrassed about, you know? There’s a great many people who go their whole lives without every learning to feel that compassion, and it my opinion, it’s better to feel too much of that than to look on at suffering and feel nothing at all.”
― Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star

“Well, now you’ve named all five, haven’t you?”
Jay’s flush deepened, if that was possible. “I guess I have. Is that horribly greedy of me?”
“Maybe, but I don’t mind. You’re hungry for affection; I’m hungry to give it to you.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“The people are behind him for now. He has infected them with his hatred. He demands absolute loyalty, and when anyone dares to criticize him, they lose their position. I think he will lead a great army, but what will be the result?”
― John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky