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“There was this one weekend, a million summers ago, when I sat on the shore drinking a frozen limeade, and I realized the only thing I wanted to look at was the way the sun hit the girls swimming in the lake.
The problem has always been this: When I look at you, I taste lime, and I see light on water.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The train pulls in and she taps her Oyster card on the reader, stepping on board. You both wave as the doors close. She smiles at you as she settles into her seat, waving again. You begin to do the same, chasing after the train in pantomime fashion, spurred on by her laughter. You run and wave and laugh until the train gathers speed and the platform runs out. She escapes the frame, until it is just you on the platform, a little breathless, a little ecstatic, a little sad.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Longing is sort of a gross word. So is ache. Or yearn. They're all kind of gross. But that's how I had felt about touching, kissing, Coley.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post