Aloyal

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“because if I was ever going to, I’d have done it already.”
― Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

“Some things have to fall apart because they don’t belong together, but some things belong so much they could never break.”
― Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl