“Let it be enough that the world looks alive when it’s wet and so much living is most beautiful when it’s dying.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“Once, someone told me I have a small heart. Whenever I weep I press the moment like a garlic clove— I want to feel, good God I want to feel, to see how everything alive becomes a landscape.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“He is in love with a woman who too often appears not to need love at all; a fighter so capable and strong that there are few opportunities afforded to nurture her.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Kristen is a woman of considerable steeliness and authority. She manages a department at work, she earns more than her lover, she is confident and a leader. She has known from a young age that she must be able to take care of herself. However, in bed with Rabih, she now discovers that she'd like to…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings--appreciation, tenderness, gratitude, and surrender--into a physical act.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“You gave me What you did not have, and I gave you What I had to give—together, we made Something greater from the difference.”— Alberto Álvaro Ríos, narrativemagazine.com
“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print--the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively…”— John Edward Williams, amazon.com
“There was something about her that is so unique and rare; she's raw and deep, fun and sensitive. She's a rock of strength and purity, but she's a monger of love and passion. Her heart beats because she wants to help others and see them shine. She's here to be the one that you can't forget; she's a w…”— Sylvester McNutt, instagram.com
“Her heart was wild, but I didn't want to catch it. I wanted to run with it, to set mine free.”— Atticus, instagram.com
“I wait to feel this intensity, and I meet it with a burning passion as I light up the sky with my luster, my brightness, my radiance.”— Alexis Agape, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have yet to learn to be steady as the Northern Star, of a small but bright light against the veil of the dark. I have only ever known to burn with such intensity that all other stars pale in comparison.”— Alexis Agape, thoughtcatalog.com
“When I fell for you, emotions exploded within me, like a shooting star streaking across the dark night sky, with shimmers of light tailing my elation. But all I ever was, was a brief moment in the darkness, a protest against the night sky, of hope against all odds.”— Alexis Agape, thoughtcatalog.com
“Him and I, we were not fire. We were water (still are), liquid, pliable. We took the shape of anything in the universe. It was the togetherness of water that took to me—we are separate but we are the same. Our volume changes, our chemical makeup not always in balance. But most importantly, I knew we…”— Valerie Cheng, thoughtcatalog.com
“Naked is being pure when we’ve all sinned. Naked is open to judgment and criticism. My 4am confession to you is what it’s like being naked. ‘This is who I am and I’m in love with you’ is being naked. No one gets this kind of naked anymore. We just take our clothes off.”— Jennifer Machin, thoughtcatalog.com