a. > a.'s Quotes

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

“Even when we were not touching we were one, joined by an invisible thread, like Jude had said about the moon and tide.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Tenderly, it seemed almost painfully, they smiled at one another, saying nothing, and their questions were the same, am I the one you think about, when we made love were you happy, have I hurt you, do you love me, will you always.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

“Is that the coat I bought you? he said.
Yes. I wear it to remind me that you’re real.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

“We were predictable to each other, like two halves of the same brain.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

“What continues to surprise me, and what I still don't understand, is not the reason that love ends but the way that it endures.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

“In this way my love for him mirrored my mother's love for my father, which, despite their separation, had endured--call it habit, call it time, call it memory, the memory of love. It's not so easy, after wall, to cut that invisible thread.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

“I'm not the best choice for her. I'm not a choice at all. But twenty-thousand breaths and they're all going to be for her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Quiet Ones