Noah Gastélum

“she called him over and gave him a deep warm kiss on the mouth that was so much like the kiss he'd been waiting for all his life that it abruptly woke him”
― George Saunders, Pastoralia

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

“He was old enough now to know that within every relationship was something unfulfilled and disappointing, something that had to be sought elsewhere.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life