Annie Thayer

“Maybe we’re like the cherry blossom, Rune. Like shooting stars. Maybe we loved too much too young and burned so bright that we had to fade out.” She pointed behind us, to the blossom grove. “Extreme beauty, quick death. We had this love long enough to teach us a lesson. To show us how capable of love we truly are.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze,
And so the blossoms fall, and so my days ...”
― Onitsura

“I wished it was raining," he said.
"I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I'm so in love with you, Rook. So fucking in love with you, it scares me.”
― J.A. Huss, Tragic / Manic / Panic