Beatrice

“Death has worn you smooth as a stone.”
― Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

“I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone ..
The way he's gonna part his hair, which shirt his gonna wear that day, knowing the exact story he'd tell in a given situation. I'm sure that's when I know I am really in love.”
― Julie Delpy

“The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Romantic obsession is my first language. I live in a world of fantasies, infatuations and love poems. Sometimes I wonder if the yearning I’ve felt for others was more of a yearning for yearning itself. I’ve pined insatiably and repeatedly: for strangers, new lovers, unrequited flames. While the subjects changed, that feeling always remained. Perhaps, then, I have not been so infatuated with the people themselves, but with the act of longing.

from “Life without Longing,” The New York Times (9 February 2019)”
― Melissa Broder