Sweet

“She looked down at his hands, privately in awe of their pianist grace, the unconscious way his fingers twitched when someone asked him a question”
― N.M. Lombardi, Chance

“Do you like being ignored?" Another pause, one hand flinching on his knee. "It's what I know.”
― N.M. Lombardi, Chance

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He had the look of a sensitive bard, but there was no poetry to his words; he spoke awkwardly, uncertainly, as if the sound of his own voice jarred him.”
― N.M. Lombardi, Chance