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

“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

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

“It was all just a mind game to distract himself from the fact that it was never enough. No one would ever let him have enough.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes