Karen

“And after that, after the awkward shuffling away of that last thin layer of clothes, words retreated to the sounds they once were. We had sex. A happy entanglement of warm limbs and warmer love. A physical and psychological merging that conjured a kind of inner light, a bio-emotional phosphorescence that was overwhelming in its gorgeousness. I wondered why they weren’t prouder of it. Of this magic. I wondered why, if they had to have flags, why they didn’t just opt for one with a picture of sex.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Backseat Saints

“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“It's a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can't stop being it.”
― Joshilyn Jackson