Meghan Powers

“I don’t enjoy your beauty any the less because I know how much it owes to the happy combination of perfect taste and ruthless determination”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“People are a lot more knowable than they think they are.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be.”
― Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood

“This could be their life together, each moment, shared, passed back and forth between each other to alleviate the pressure, the awful pressure of having to hold time for oneself. This is perhaps why people get together in the first place. The sharing of time. The sharing of the responsibility of anchoring oneself in the world. Life is less terrible when you can just rest for a moment, put everything down and wait without having to worry about being washed away. People take each others hands and they hold on as tight as they can, they hold on to each other and to themselves because they know that the other person will not.”
― Brandon Taylor, Real Life