We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Is it true that in every relationship, one person loves more than the other? Why does it always feel like I’m the one who loves more?”

no bond is stronger than a girl and the first anime she ever watched

“The seats… in my life… How should I put this? I don’t want my heart to be affected by people who don’t have a place there. Does that sound cold? Well, I guess there are also guys like you who brings their own chair and takes a seat.”
~ Nobara Kugisaki

You’ll be surprised if you find out what kind of person I am. You know?
You know. I’m a scary person. I won’t even blink if I was stabbed in the stomach. But… you scare me. I get nervous when you’re in front of me. And that annoys me because it makes me feel like an idiot. But even though it annoys me… I still wait for you. Okay….
You should know, Yeom Mi-jeong, you should know who you are.
~ My Liberation Notes (2022)

“May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go.”

― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

In May, anything seemed possible. If only I could learn to harness time itself. To make every month like May! Or, perhaps, to live backward in time, so that whenever the end of the month arrived, I could turn May right around and live it all over again.

- T.A. Barron, The Lost Years (Merlin, #1)

I wanted “peace,” to be left alone in my underground world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Dolly Parton