✿ nhubert

“That’s why contemporary society is dysfunctional. They might mumble nice things about diversity of lifestyles and whatnot, but in the end nothing has changed since prehistoric times.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“He wanted to blame the books, the sci-fi, but he couldn’t—he loved them too much.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Instead, I squirreled away small things so that in the lean days ahead glimmers from the past might bring back the warmth.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and the spectacle we presented, two grown men jostling each other on the wide sidewalk and aiming the cherry pits, as though they were spitballs, into each other's faces, must have been outrageous. And I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he was that afternoon.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room