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“He likes both types of conversations with Willem, but he appreciates the mundane ones more than he’d imagined he would. He had always felt bound to Willem by the big things—love; trust—but he likes being bound to him by the small things as well: bills and taxes and dental checkups.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He takes a breath. “Yes,” he says. “I’ve decided to stay.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I don’t know what love is supposed to feel like, either, but I hope it feels like this.”
― Willow Dixon, Best Served Cold

“It is raining and there is a dog lying
in the gutter and the gutter is filling
with water because the sewer is clogged.

If the dog were alive he would be drowning
but as it is, the water is simply stroking
his fur.”
― Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe