Michael

“It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he's trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.”
― Stephen Dunn, Different Hours

“When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn’t begin at all.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood