Mina

“Whiskey was still looking some place past Patrick’s shoulder, and suddenly his brown eyes met
Patrick’s with a sort of inscrutable intensity. “Patrick, this isn’t over, okay? You and me? You want to
stay here, you want to keep sleeping in my bed, that’s fine. I like you there. You’re warm and you’re kind,
and it’s comfortable, having you there. But I’m going to want you, and you’re going to want me, and if you
don’t want to follow through on that, that’s fine too. But you’ll need to decide which way you want it, and
you need to make it clear when you make your decision. I’m, like, twelve years older than you, and I don’t
sleep around. I’m not going to hit on you just because you’re cute and you’re here. I need to know it’s
something you want, and it’s something you need, and you’re not just doing it because you think you need
to put out because I’m being human to you. You don’t. All you need to do is be human back.”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein