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“And no one can ever figure out what you want,
and you won't tell them,
and you realize the person who loves you isn't the one you thought it would be,
and you don't trust him to love you in a way
you would enjoy.

And the boy who loves you the wrong way is filthy.
And the boy who loves you in the wrong way keeps weakening.
You thought if you handed over your body
he'd do something interesting.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I’ll take my now, waking with a lover’s scent still on me, around me, take my hopes before they’re maybe tragedy; a good morning is still a good morning, even if it leads to apocalypse at night.”
― Kathe Koja, The Cipher

“...how a familiar room slowly changes colour as morning arrives.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“His heart ached in such a familiar way, and the very familiarity of it pained him.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato