CJ

“I'm so lonely that I would talk to a teacup. All the fine things in the world can't replace a person who listens to you and tells you their ideas.”
― Willow Winters, The Beast & His Beauty

“People nearly drove Silimalo phoenixes extinct...Our greed. Our short-sightedness. All for a few feathers, we almost wiped out a species. But people saved the phoenixes, too. We captured the last wild birds and brought them into captivity. We started breeding them, trying to keep the species alive. For me phoenixes are a reminder of how awful people can be... but also how much good we can do, when we put our minds to it.”
― S.A. MacLean

“The love stories sold us the wrong thing. The best kind of love doesn’t happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life. It’s not grand gestures that show how you feel, it’s all the little secret things you do to make her life better that you never tell her about. Taking the end piece of the bread at breakfast so she can have the last middle piece for her sandwich when you pack her lunch. Making sure her car always has gas so she never has to stop at the pump. Telling her you’re not cold and to take your jacket when you are in fact, very, very cold. It’s watching TV on a rainy Sunday while you’re doing laundry and turning her light off when she’s fallen asleep reading. Sharing pizza crusts and laughing about something the kids did and taking care of each other when you’re sick. It isn’t glamorous, it isn’t all butterflies and stars in your eyes. It’s real. This is the kind of love that forever is made of. Because if it’s this good when life is draining and mundane and hard, think of how wonderful it will be when the love songs are playing and the moon is out.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“And you promise we can do that locked in a a bedroom thing later?"
"Ava, when we get back here, we aren't making it to the bedroom before I do the things I want to do to you.”
― Christy Schillig, Wish You Weren't Here