Yily

“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“My advice is, if he’s worried about his reputation, don’t rape anyone.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“Memory works that way—like seeing forward and backward at the same time.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Even if the darkness never ended and swallowed him whole, he'd still run to her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Silver Nitrate