Sabrina

“Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.
I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion