Aleks Jakubowska

“I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I heard what you said.' Pump, pump, pump went his powerful arms. 'What you waiting to admit until I was almost dead, you fucking coward.' His lightening surged into her, sending her body arcing off the ground as he tried to jump-start her heart. He snarled in her ear, 'Now come say it to my face.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay