Liz

“Our lives are lived with the illusion of control and then there are moments rare as wisdom when we abandon the pretense that we are masters of our fate.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“We got high together, got drunk, got off on saliva and skin, and still found no way to capture this feeling. It was so much bigger than us, so brutal. Even when we fucked as savagely as we could bear it was only the shadow of this thing between us. Killing each other would hint at a fraction of it. I couldn’t fuck it out of her, couldn’t bleed it out of myself, couldn’t purge, drug, numb it away. Like the dark seed in me, this was a drive so deep it was embedded in my core. I had never loved a girl like this. I had never loved.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

“My anger was an exciting feeling, and I didn’t give it up easily. I was ready to fight.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I had the urge to caress the small of her back with my fingertips. That thought was immediately tried, sentenced to ten years’ hard labor, and exiled to Siberia.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story