Natalie

“Some days I can go nearly an hour
without thinking of the taste
of your mouth.”
― Tim Seibles, Hurdy-Gurdy

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
― Louise Glück

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Cary felt like he’d spent his whole life trying to close his arms around her and never quite succeeding…. Could he stop trying to have Shiloh- and just have her? Be with her. Plan around her. Know she was his, even from ten thousand miles away. Cary wanted to feel settled. He wanted to feel locked down. Shiloh was a light in the distance. She was an ache he’d been feeling since he was thirteen. An itch. She was a finger hooked into every torn seam, tugging- and Cary was made of torn seams. Just a poorly stitched human being. He’d only known how to want Shiloh, never how to have her. Could he just- Could he finally- relax?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance