Jasper

“That's the difference between love and hunger," she says. "Hunger is a story you get stuck in. Love's the story that takes you somewhere new.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

“And this, he decides, is what a good-bye should be. Not a period, but an ellipsis, a statement trailing off, until someone is there to pick it up. It is a door left open. It is drifting off to sleep.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“If I'm more of a toy to be wound up than a man, can I write beautiful things?”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes