Cariadne

“This is the least sensible way to solve your problems, she'd said to me the last time I'd given her a fake-dating book. I can think of at least forty-seven better ways these two - she'd smacked the book so hard I thought I saw it flinch - could have solved their problem than pretending to be in a relationship.”
― Jodi McAlister, An Academic Affair

“There was a famous narrative theorist named Paul Ricœur who distinguished between "clock time" and "human time." Clock time was measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days: the things we think of as the basic building blocks of time. Human time, though, was measured in events: the basic building blocks of story - and thus, because humans love nothing more than to narrativize their own experiences, of our lives.”
― Jodi McAlister, An Academic Affair

“But perhaps love is being the exact right size of drill bit to tighten the other person's very specific loose screws.

Okay, this analogy may not fully work since I don't use tools and it sounds unnecessarily dirty. What I mean is that maybe love is giving the other person the something they may not have on their own.”
― emma st. clair, If All Else Sails

“When I told my boss that I was coming here, you know what he said? He said, if it's just stage one cancer, then why do you have to go? And for a split second I almost agreed with him. Because that's what I've trained myself to do... And then I thought, wait a minute. Why does my mother have to be on her fucking deathbed before I go? Why do people have to die or almost die before we decide we need to make things right? So that's why I came. Because I should have come sooner and I wasn't going to wait until later.”
― Karina Halle, Wild Card