Kylie Rae

“Some friendships develop like flowers in a garden: they are conscientiously planted and nurtured. The ground about them is kept clear of competition. Then, after some weeks and months of incremental growth and laborious pruning, a flower blooms. Such cultivated friendships are agreeable and convenient, if not enduring. Other friendships seem to arise spontaneously, like an egg in a nest or a freckle upon an arm, and these are often mystifying, as both parties are left to wonder how exactly this unexpected affection took hold.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

“All those layers of silence upon silence.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Celibacy is the most extreme of sexual perversions, after all.”
― Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning