sir reads-a-lot

“And maybe that’s it: You do things in the moment for the person you hope you might be two years from now.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“What do you, specifically, want from your unprecedented, never-to-be-repeated existence?”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“He asked God to reveal Himself, Herself, Themself, Itself, whatever. He asked with all the earnestness at his disposal, which was troves. If every relationship was a series of advances and retreats, Cyrus was almost never the retreat-er, sharing everything important about himself at a word, a smile, with a shrug as if to say, "Those're just facts. Why should I be ashamed?”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!