Reuben Seldou

“But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope.
What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.”
― B.G. Bowers, Death and Life

“Eventually, I spent so much time in the friend zone
that I grew to think of it as some kind
of magical home away from home, some lush forest
filled with unicorns and elves and puppies
none of whom were getting laid.”
― Dylan Garity