Saskia

“The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and sharing motifs (the way Tomas and Sabina exchanged the motif of the bowler hat), but if they meet when they are older, like Franz and Sabina, their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them.”
― Milan Kundera

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name