Emily

“To me, if you've been given beauty, it's a responsibility to make beauty with it. It's like the law of energy. Beauty doesn't die; it just takes different forms. The most important thing is to give it back, to leave the world larger.”
― Nessa Rapoport, Evening

“Wren saw now how passion was delicate and temporary, a visitor, a feeling that would come and go. Feelings fled under pressure; feelings did not light the darkness. What remained strong in the deep, the hard times, was love as an effort, a doing, a conscious act of will. Soulmates, like her and Lewis, were not theoretical and found. They were tangible, built.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“What is it that we love in another? I believe it is style—the thing that lies beneath what they call ‘chemistry’: a more or less permanent way of being in the world, an indefinable way of helping others to know themselves, to accept themselves.”
― Guadalupe Nettel, Después del invierno

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem