Captain Silvia

“Kissing was very much like eating. But instead of reducing the appetite, the food consumed actually increased it.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no – they were not perfect. and it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“You are up against the most awful moment in your life and your whole future depends on what you are going to do in the next hour, nothing less.
You've got to strike for your freedom and strike now for the moment may not come again.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Well, if it is snobbish to exercise one's taste, then I admit I am a snob.”
― Ita Daly, The Lady with the Red Shoes, and Other Stories