Ellie

“I am not interested in love that is aloof. In a love that refuses hard work, instead demanding a bite-size education that doesn't transform anything.... I am not interested in a love that refuses to see systems and structures of injustice, preferring to ask itself only about personal intentions.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“Evil has only the power that we give it. I give you nothing. I take back. Starve. Starve. Starve.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Love-is this something we can learn to do again, and if so, when will that time arrive, even on a bad day? When do you know when something is becoming something that changes you?”
― Daniel Handler, Adverbs

“Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like a hunted ornament confabulating with the ghost of all my evenings. I'd dust him off from time to time and then put him back on the mantelpiece. He no longer belonged to earth or to life. All I was likely to discover at this point wasn't just how distant were the paths we'd taken, it was the measure of loss that was going to strike me--a loss I didn't mind thinking about in abstract terms but which would hurt when stared at in the face, the way nostalgia hurts long after we've stopped thinking of things we lost and may never have cared for.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name