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“Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to.”

― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

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“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country."

― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”

― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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"The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”

― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.

― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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“Don’t worry about being good. Worry about saying things precisely. Worry about saying things in a way that makes them more than what they are.”

― Bronwyn Fischer, The Adult

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"It doesn't matter how charming you are if there's no one to charm.”

― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

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“Do not mistake this kindness. I simply want to be the one who breaks you.”

― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“What does it take to know a person? Time. It takes time.”

― Elin Hilderbrand, 28 Summers

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What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?

― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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And we hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing, and love no one.

Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

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“Some of us exist just a little too loudly for the comfort of those who would prefer we did not exist at all”

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

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“Loneliness wasn’t having no one. Loneliness was the gap between what you hoped for and what you got.”

― Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met.”

― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“When words are real enough, when they’re the exact right words, when what you’re saying matters, when it’s beautiful and perfect and true—it hurts.”

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

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People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way

― Charles Bukowski, Women

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What I have read in 2023 part II