Tessa

“It’s not true, you know,” he said. “You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“I did not wake up and suddenly feel that I loved you. The only answer I can give you is that it happened gradually. Slowly, and unnoticed, the way the ocean turns rocks into sand. And you are an ocean, Hana. Gentle and quiet, yet powerful enough to sweep away any man or ship. I drowned in you a long time ago and I did not even know it.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“When you spend your life dreading your future, you learn to welcome anything that makes you wait.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“You loved me—then what right had you to leave me for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because neither misery nor degradation nor death would have parted us—you”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights