Apoorva

“He has this feeling, with women, that it’s hard to have an experience that feels entirely new, that doesn’t feel like something that has already happened, and will probably happen again in some very similar way, so that it never feels like all that much is at stake. There’s often this feeling of—Yes, I like you, but I like other people as well. It’s not even that I like them more. It’s just that I don’t like them less. So to be with any one person feels like an arbitrary thing, and that arbitrary feeling has started to undermine any lingering sense that there might be a particular person that he’s somehow meant to be with.”
― David Szalay, Flesh

“It’s a library, Daphne. If you can’t be a human here, where can you?”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“believe in nothing but a woman’s capacity to survive disappointment”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“I’m a cynic. And a cynic is a romantic who’s too scared to hope.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story